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		TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Author............................................................................................................................................................................		xiii
Dedication........................................................................................................................................................................................		xiii
Acknowledgments...........................................................................................................................................................................		xiii
Foreword...........................................................................................................................................................................................		xv
Why Does Office 365 Have Better Features?..................................................................................................................................		3
Which Version of Office 365 Has Power Pivot?.............................................................................................................................		3
Why Do I Have to Sign in to Excel?................................................................................................................................................		3
How Can I Use Excel on Dual Monitors?.......................................................................................................................................		4
How Can I Open The Same Workbook Twice?..............................................................................................................................		4
Find Icons on the Ribbon.................................................................................................................................................................		4
Where is File, Exit?............................................................................................................................................................................		4
Where Are My Macros?....................................................................................................................................................................		5
Customizing the Ribbon...................................................................................................................................................................		6
Go Wide..............................................................................................................................................................................................		8
Minimize the Ribbon to Free Up a Few More Rows.....................................................................................................................		9
Use a Wheel Mouse to Scroll Through The Ribbon Tabs...........................................................................................................		10
Why Do The Charting Ribbon Tabs Keep Disappearing?..........................................................................................................		10
Use Dialog Launchers For More Choices.....................................................................................................................................		10
Icon, Dropdowns, and Hybrids......................................................................................................................................................		10
Zoom is at the Bottom.....................................................................................................................................................................		11
Make Your Most-Used Icons Always Visible................................................................................................................................		12
The Excel 2003 Alt Keystrokes Still Work
(If You Type Them Slowly Enough)..............................................................................................................................................		14
Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Access the Ribbon............................................................................................................................		15
Why Do I Have Only 65,536 Rows?..............................................................................................................................................		15
Which File Format Should I Use?..................................................................................................................................................		16
Why Does The File Menu Cover The Entire Screen?..................................................................................................................		17
How Do I Close The File Menu?....................................................................................................................................................		17
Increase the Number of Workbooks in the Recent Files List.....................................................................................................		18
Change All Print Settings in Excel.................................................................................................................................................		18
I Just Want The Old Print Preview Back.......................................................................................................................................		19
Get Quick Access to Formatting Options Using the Mini Toolbar...........................................................................................		19
What Is Protected Mode?................................................................................................................................................................		20
Use a Trusted Location to Prevent Excel’s Constant Warnings.................................................................................................		21
My Manager Wants Me to Create a New
Expense Report from Scratch........................................................................................................................................................		22
Open a Copy of a Workbook..........................................................................................................................................................		22
Open Excel with Ctrl+Alt+X..........................................................................................................................................................		23
Have Excel Always Open Certain Workbook(s)..........................................................................................................................		23
Set up Excel Icons to Open a Specific File on Startup.................................................................................................................		24
Use a Macro to Customize Startup................................................................................................................................................		24
Control Settings for Every New Workbook and Worksheet......................................................................................................		25
Excel Says I Have Links, But I Can Not Find Them....................................................................................................................		26
Automatically Move the Cell Pointer After Enter........................................................................................................................		27
Return to the First Column After Typing the Last Column.......................................................................................................		27
Enter Data in a Circle (Or Any Pattern).......................................................................................................................................		28
How to See Headings as You Scroll Around a Report.................................................................................................................		28
How to See Headings and Row Labels as You Scroll Around a Report....................................................................................		30
Why is the Scrollbar Slider Suddenly Tiny?.................................................................................................................................		30
Why Won’t My Scrollbar Scroll to My Charts?............................................................................................................................		31
Jump to the Edge of the Data..........................................................................................................................................................		31
Jump to Next Corner of Selection..................................................................................................................................................		32
Ctrl+Backspace brings the Active Cell into View........................................................................................................................		32
Zoom with the Wheel Mouse.........................................................................................................................................................		33
Copy a Formula to All Data Rows.................................................................................................................................................		33
Copy the Characters from a Cell Instead	of Copying an Entire Cell........................................................................................	33
A Faster Way To Paste Values.........................................................................................................................................................		34
Quickly Turn a Range on Its Side..................................................................................................................................................		35
Quickly Rearrange Rows Or Columns..........................................................................................................................................		36
Quickly Copy Worksheets..............................................................................................................................................................		37

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Use Group Mode to Change All Worksheets...............................................................................................................................	37
Find Text Numbers..........................................................................................................................................................................	37
Why Can’t Excel Find a Number?..................................................................................................................................................	38
Mix Formatting In A Single Cell....................................................................................................................................................	40
Enter a Series of Months, Days, or More by Using the Fill Handle...........................................................................................	40
Have the Fill Handle Fill Your List of Part Numbers..................................................................................................................	42
Teach Excel to Fill A, B, C...............................................................................................................................................................	43
Add Total to the End of Jan, Feb, ... Dec.......................................................................................................................................	43
Put Date & Time in a Cell...............................................................................................................................................................	44
Use Excel as a Word Processor.......................................................................................................................................................	45
Add Excel to Word...........................................................................................................................................................................	45
Use Hyperlinks to Create an Opening Menu for a Workbook..................................................................................................	46
Spell check a Region........................................................................................................................................................................	47
Stop Excel from AutoCorrecting Certain Words.........................................................................................................................	47
Use AutoCorrect to Enable a Shortcut..........................................................................................................................................	48
Why Won’t the Track Changes Feature Work in Excel?..............................................................................................................	49
Simultaneously Collaborate on a Workbook with Excel Web App...........................................................................................	49
How to Print Titles at the Top of Each Page.................................................................................................................................	50
Print a Letter at the Top of Page 1
and Repeat Headings at the Top of Each Subsequent Page........................................................................................................	51
How to Print Page Numbers at the Bottom of Each Page...........................................................................................................	51
How to Make a Wide Report Fit to One Page Wide by Many Pages Tall.................................................................................	52
Add a Printable Watermark............................................................................................................................................................	53
Print Multiple Ranges......................................................................................................................................................................	54
Add a Page Break at Each Change in Customer..........................................................................................................................	54
Save My Worksheet as a PDF File..................................................................................................................................................	55
Send an Excel File as an Attachment.............................................................................................................................................	56
Save Excel Data as a Text File.........................................................................................................................................................	57
Close All Open Workbooks............................................................................................................................................................	58
I Just Closed an Unsaved Workbook.............................................................................................................................................	58
Roll Back to an AutoSaved Version...............................................................................................................................................	60
Have Excel Talk to You....................................................................................................................................................................	60
Enter Special Symbols.....................................................................................................................................................................	61
What Do All the Triangles Mean?.................................................................................................................................................	61
Why does Excel Insert Cell Addresses When I Edit In a RefEdit Box?....................................................................................	63
F4 Repeats Last Command.............................................................................................................................................................	63
Print all Excel Keyboard Shortcuts................................................................................................................................................	64
Create a Personal Macro Workbook..............................................................................................................................................	64
Macro to Toggle Positive to Negative............................................................................................................................................	65
Assign a Macro to a Shortcut Key..................................................................................................................................................	66
Assign a Macro to a Toolbar Icon..................................................................................................................................................	66
Use a Macro to Change Case to Upper, Lower, or Proper..........................................................................................................	66
Get Free Excel Help.........................................................................................................................................................................	67
Start a Formula with = or +............................................................................................................................................................	71
Three Methods of Entering Formulas...........................................................................................................................................	71
Why Does Excel 2013 Look Like A Slot Machine?......................................................................................................................	73
Use Parentheses to Control the Order of Calculations..............................................................................................................	74
Long Formulas in the Formula Bar...............................................................................................................................................	74
Copy a Formula That Contains Relative References...................................................................................................................	75
Copy a Formula While Keeping One Reference Fixed...............................................................................................................	76
Create a Multiplication Table.........................................................................................................................................................	77
Calculate a Sales Commission........................................................................................................................................................	78
Simplify the Entry of Dollar Signs in Formulas...........................................................................................................................	79
Learn R1C1 Referencing to Understand Formula Copying.......................................................................................................	80
Create Easier-to-Understand Formulas with Named Ranges....................................................................................................	82
See All Named Ranges at 39% Zoom............................................................................................................................................	83
Use Named Constants to Store Numbers.....................................................................................................................................	83
Total Without Using a Formula.....................................................................................................................................................	84
Add or Multiply Two Columns Without Using Formulas..........................................................................................................	85
Type 123 to Enter 1.23.....................................................................................................................................................................	86
Join Two Text Columns...................................................................................................................................................................	86
Concatenate Several Cells...............................................................................................................................................................	88
Join Text with a Date or Currency.................................................................................................................................................	88
Break Data Apart Using Flash Fill.................................................................................................................................................	89
Parse Data using Text to Columns.................................................................................................................................................	91
Excel Is Randomly Parsing Pasted Data........................................................................................................................................	92

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I Lose Leading Zeroes From CSV Files.........................................................................................................................................	93
Open CSV File With Dates in D/M/Y Format.............................................................................................................................	93
Handle Dates in YYYYMMDD format.........................................................................................................................................	94
My G/L Software Uses a Trailing Minus for Negative Numbers...............................................................................................	94
Parse Data With Leader Lines........................................................................................................................................................	94
Parse Multi-Line Cells.....................................................................................................................................................................	96
Change Smith, Jane to Jane Smith.................................................................................................................................................	96
Convert Numbers to Text...............................................................................................................................................................	97
Fill a Cell with Repeating Characters............................................................................................................................................	97
CLEAN Hasn’t Kept Up With The Times.....................................................................................................................................	98
Add the Worksheet Name as a Title..............................................................................................................................................	98
Use AutoSum to Quickly Enter a Total Formula.........................................................................................................................	99
AutoSum Doesn’t Always Predict My Data Correctly..............................................................................................................	100
Use the AutoSum Button to Enter Averages, Min, Max, and Count.......................................................................................	102
Ditto The Formula Above.............................................................................................................................................................	102
The Count Option of the AutoSum Dropdown Doesn’t Appear to Work..............................................................................	103
Total the Red Cells.........................................................................................................................................................................	105
Automatically Number a List of Employees...............................................................................................................................	106
Automatically Number the Visible Rows....................................................................................................................................	107
Discover New Functions Using the fx Button............................................................................................................................	108
Get Help on Any Function While Entering a Formula.............................................................................................................	108
Yes, Formula Autocomplete Is Cool,
if You Can Stop Entering the Opening Parentheses.................................................................................................................	109
Use F9 in the Formula Bar to Test a Formula............................................................................................................................	110
Quick Calculator............................................................................................................................................................................	111
When Entering a Formula, You Get the Formula Instead of the Result.................................................................................	112
Highlight All Formula Cells Using Conditional Formatting...................................................................................................	113
You Change a Cell in Excel but the Formulas Do Not Calculate.............................................................................................	113
Calculate One Range.....................................................................................................................................................................	114
Why Use the Intersection Operator?...........................................................................................................................................	115
Understand Implicit Intersection.................................................................................................................................................	118
Find the Longest Win Streak........................................................................................................................................................	119
Add B5 On All Worksheets...........................................................................................................................................................	120
Consider Formula Speed...............................................................................................................................................................	121
Exact Formula Copy......................................................................................................................................................................	122
Calculate a Loan Payment.............................................................................................................................................................	124
Calculate Many Scenarios for Loan Payments...........................................................................................................................	124
Back into an Answer Using Goal Seek........................................................................................................................................	125
Create an Amortization Table......................................................................................................................................................	125
Do 40 What-if Analyses Quickly.................................................................................................................................................	127
Random Walk Down Wall Street.................................................................................................................................................	128
What-If For 3 Or More Variables.................................................................................................................................................	129
Rank Scores.....................................................................................................................................................................................	131
Rank a List Without Ties..............................................................................................................................................................	132
Sorting with a Formula.................................................................................................................................................................	132
Round Numbers.............................................................................................................................................................................	133
Round to the Nearest $0.05 with MROUND.............................................................................................................................	134
Round Prices to the Next Highest $5..........................................................................................................................................	134
Round 0.5 towards Even Per ASTM-E29....................................................................................................................................	134
Separate the Integer From the Decimals.....................................................................................................................................	135
Why Is This Price Showing $27.85000001 Cents?.....................................................................................................................	135
Calculate a Percentage of Total.....................................................................................................................................................	136
Calculate a Running Percentage of Total....................................................................................................................................	137
Use the ^ Sign for Exponents.......................................................................................................................................................	138
Raise a Number to a Fraction to Find the Square or Third Root............................................................................................	138
Calculate a Growth Rate...............................................................................................................................................................	139
Find the Area of a Circle...............................................................................................................................................................	140
Figure Out Lottery Probability.....................................................................................................................................................	141
Help Your Kids with Their Math..................................................................................................................................................	142
Convert Units.................................................................................................................................................................................	144
XOR Only Works Correctly for Two Values..............................................................................................................................	145
Find the Second Largest Value.....................................................................................................................................................	145
Format Every Other Row in Green..............................................................................................................................................	145
\Use IF to Calculate a Bonus........................................................................................................................................................	148
IF with Two Conditions................................................................................................................................................................	148
Tiered Commission Plan with IF.................................................................................................................................................	150

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Display Up/Down Arrows............................................................................................................................................................	151
Stop Showing Zeroes in Cell Links..............................................................................................................................................	154
Count Records That Match a Criterion.......................................................................................................................................	155
Build a Table That Will Count by Criteria..................................................................................................................................	156
Sum Records That Match a Criterion..........................................................................................................................................	156
Can the Results of a Formula Be Used in SUMIF?....................................................................................................................	156
Calculate Based on Multiple Conditions....................................................................................................................................	157
Avoid Errors Using IFERROR......................................................................................................................................................	158
Use VLOOKUP to Join Two Tables.............................................................................................................................................	159
Every VLOOKUP Ends in False..................................................................................................................................................	160
Lookup Table Does Not Have to Be Sorted................................................................................................................................	161
Beware of #N/A from VLOOKUP...............................................................................................................................................	162
Add New Items to the Middle Of Your Lookup Table..............................................................................................................	162
Consider Naming the Lookup Table...........................................................................................................................................	162
Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces..........................................................................................................................................	162
Your Lookup Table Can Go Across.............................................................................................................................................	163
Copy a VLOOKUP Across Many Columns...............................................................................................................................	164
INDEX Sounds Like an Inane Function.....................................................................................................................................	165
You Already Know MATCH, Really!..........................................................................................................................................	165
INDEX Sounds Like an Inane Function - II...............................................................................................................................	165
VLOOKUP Left..............................................................................................................................................................................	166
Fast Multi-Column VLOOKUP...................................................................................................................................................	167
Speed Up Your VLOOKUP .........................................................................................................................................................	168
Return the Next Larger Value in a Lookup.................................................................................................................................	169
Two-Way Lookup...........................................................................................................................................................................	170
Combine Formulas into a Mega-Formula..................................................................................................................................	170
Combine Two Lists Using VLOOKUP.......................................................................................................................................	172
Watch for Duplicates When Using VLOOKUP........................................................................................................................	174
Return the Last Entry....................................................................................................................................................................	174
Return the Last Matching Value..................................................................................................................................................	176
Sum All of the Lookups.................................................................................................................................................................	177
Embed a Small Lookup Table In Formula..................................................................................................................................	178
I Don’t Want to Use a Lookup Table to Choose One of Five Choices.....................................................................................	179
Is there Something More Flexible than CHOOSE?...................................................................................................................	180
Lookup Two Values........................................................................................................................................................................	181
Add Comments to a Formula.......................................................................................................................................................	183
Create Random Numbers.............................................................................................................................................................	184
Randomly Sequence a List............................................................................................................................................................	185
Play Dice Games with Excel.........................................................................................................................................................	185
Generate Random Without Repeats............................................................................................................................................	186
Calculate a Trendline Forecast.....................................................................................................................................................	186
Forecast Data with Seasonality.....................................................................................................................................................	188
Build a Model to Predict Sales Based on Multiple Regression.................................................................................................	188
Switching Columns into Rows Using a Formula.......................................................................................................................	191
SUM a Range that is C5 Rows Tall Using OFFSET...................................................................................................................	192
Replace Volatile OFFSET with INDEX.......................................................................................................................................	194
How Can You Test for Volatility?.................................................................................................................................................	195
Whatever Happened to the @@ Function?.................................................................................................................................	195
Tables Are Like a Database in Excel............................................................................................................................................	196
Dealing with Table Formulas........................................................................................................................................................	197
Rename Your Tables......................................................................................................................................................................	198
Charts , VLOOKUP & Pivots Expand With The Table.............................................................................................................	198
Before Deleting a Cell, Find out if Other Cells Rely on It........................................................................................................	199
Calculate a Formula in Slow Motion...........................................................................................................................................	200
Which Cells Flow into This Cell?.................................................................................................................................................	200
Color all Precedents or Dependents............................................................................................................................................	200
Monitor Distant Cells....................................................................................................................................................................	201
Auditing Worksheets with Inquire..............................................................................................................................................	202
Use Real Dates................................................................................................................................................................................	203
How Can I Tell If Have Real Dates?.............................................................................................................................................	204
Convert Text Dates to Real Dates................................................................................................................................................	205
Format Dates..................................................................................................................................................................................	206
Format Dates As Quarters or Weeks...........................................................................................................................................	207
Display Monthly Dates..................................................................................................................................................................	207
Add a Column to Show Month or Weekday..............................................................................................................................	208
Calculate First of Month...............................................................................................................................................................	208

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Calculate the Last Day of the Month...........................................................................................................................................	209
Calculate Invoice Due Dates.........................................................................................................................................................	211
Calculate Receivable Aging...........................................................................................................................................................	211
NOW, or TODAY?.........................................................................................................................................................................	212
Find the Last Sunday Of the Month............................................................................................................................................	213
Calculate Work Days.....................................................................................................................................................................	215
Calculate Work Days for a Farmers Market...............................................................................................................................	216
Calculate Age in Years, Months, Days.........................................................................................................................................	216
Coerce an Array of Dates from 2 Dates......................................................................................................................................	218
Use Real Times...............................................................................................................................................................................	219
Strangeness of Time Formatting..................................................................................................................................................	220
Convert Time to Decimal Hours.................................................................................................................................................	221
Calculate with Time.......................................................................................................................................................................	221
Enter Minutes and Seconds..........................................................................................................................................................	222
Convert Text to Time....................................................................................................................................................................	222
Can Excel Track Negative Time?.................................................................................................................................................	223
Fill Blanks With Value Above.......................................................................................................................................................	224
See Formulas in Excel 2013..........................................................................................................................................................	225
Create a Bell Curve in Excel.........................................................................................................................................................	225
Change from Lower to Upper Case in Excel..............................................................................................................................	226
Spell Out Numbers in Excel..........................................................................................................................................................	227
Copy Macro Code from the Internet Into an Add-In...............................................................................................................	227
Return Data from a Webservice in Excel 2013..........................................................................................................................	228
Add New Functions to Excel with Fast Excel SpeedTools Extras............................................................................................	229
=SUM(B1:B5) is Better Than =B1+B2+B3+B4+B5...................................................................................................................	229
How to Set up Your Data for Easy Sorting and Subtotals.........................................................................................................	233
How to Fit a Multiline Heading into One Cell...........................................................................................................................	233
No Tiny Blank Columns Between Columns..............................................................................................................................	234
How to Sort Data...........................................................................................................................................................................	235
Sort Days of the Week...................................................................................................................................................................	237
Sort a Report into a Custom Sequence.......................................................................................................................................	237
Sort All Red Cells to the Top of a Report....................................................................................................................................	239
Sort Pictures With Data................................................................................................................................................................	240
Quickly Filter a List to Certain Records.....................................................................................................................................	240
Use Search While Filtering...........................................................................................................................................................	243
Filter by Selection...........................................................................................................................................................................	243
Use AutoSum After Filtering........................................................................................................................................................	245
Filter Only Some Columns...........................................................................................................................................................	245
Find the Unique Values in a Column..........................................................................................................................................	246
Use Advanced Filter.......................................................................................................................................................................	247
Replace Multiple Filter Criteria with a Single Row of Formulas.............................................................................................	248
Add Subtotals to a Data set...........................................................................................................................................................	249
Use Group & Outline Buttons to Collapse Subtotaled Data....................................................................................................	251
Manually Apply Groups................................................................................................................................................................	251
Group Report Sections..................................................................................................................................................................	252
Copy Just Totals from Subtotaled Data.......................................................................................................................................	253
Sort Largest Customers to the Top..............................................................................................................................................	254
Select 100 Columns in Subtotals..................................................................................................................................................	255
Enter a Grand Total of Data Manually Subtotaled....................................................................................................................	255
Add Other Text to the Subtotal Lines..........................................................................................................................................	256
Subtotals by Product Within Region...........................................................................................................................................	257
Format the Subtotal Rows.............................................................................................................................................................	259
My Manager Wants a Blank Line After Each Subtotal..............................................................................................................	260
Subtotal One Column and Count Another Column.................................................................................................................	261
Can You Get Medians?..................................................................................................................................................................	262
Horizontal Subtotals......................................................................................................................................................................	263
Be Wary...........................................................................................................................................................................................	264
Send Error Reports........................................................................................................................................................................	264
Help Make Excel Better.................................................................................................................................................................	265
Remove Blank Rows from a Range..............................................................................................................................................	265
Remove Blanks from a Range While Keeping the Original Sequence....................................................................................	266
Double Space Your Data Set.........................................................................................................................................................	268
Use Find to Find an Asterisk........................................................................................................................................................	269
Use an Ampersand in a Header...................................................................................................................................................	270
Hide Zeros & Other Custom Number Formatting Tricks........................................................................................................	270
Use Consolidation to Combine Two Lists..................................................................................................................................	272

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Combine Four Quarterly Reports................................................................................................................................................	274
Find Total Sales by Customer by Combining Duplicates.........................................................................................................	275
Remove Duplicates........................................................................................................................................................................	277
Preview Remove Duplicates Without Removing Them............................................................................................................	278
Protect Cells That Contain Formulas..........................................................................................................................................	280
Find Differences In Two Lists.......................................................................................................................................................	281
Number Each Record, Starting at 1 for a New Customer.........................................................................................................	284
Add a Group Number to Each Set of Records
That Has a Unique Customer Number........................................................................................................................................	285
Deal with Data in Which Each Record Takes Five Physical Rows..........................................................................................	285
Add a Customer Number to Each Detail Record......................................................................................................................	288
Use a Built-in Data Entry Form...................................................................................................................................................	290
Cell AutoComplete Stopped Working.........................................................................................................................................	291
Data Cleansing with Flash Fill in Excel 2013.............................................................................................................................	292
Flash Fill was there and is now Gone..........................................................................................................................................	292
Flash Fill Was Not Perfect.............................................................................................................................................................	293
Flash Fill Won’t Fill Numbers.......................................................................................................................................................	293
Flash Fill and Dates........................................................................................................................................................................	293
Flash Fill and Ambiguous Data....................................................................................................................................................	294
Use a Pivot Table to Summarize Detailed Data..........................................................................................................................	294
Your Manager Wants Your Report Changed..............................................................................................................................	296
Add or Remove Fields from an Existing Pivot Table.................................................................................................................	297
Summarize Pivot Table Data by Three Measures.......................................................................................................................	297
Why Does the Pivot Table Field List Keep Disappearing?.......................................................................................................	299
Move or Change Part of a Pivot Table.........................................................................................................................................	300
See Detail Behind One Number in a Pivot Table.......................................................................................................................	301
Use Multiple Value Fields as a Column or Row Field...............................................................................................................	301
Update Data Behind a Pivot Table...............................................................................................................................................	302
Why do I Get a Count Instead of a Sum?...................................................................................................................................	302
Convert Your Data to a Table Before Adding Records..............................................................................................................	303
Create a Flattened Pivot Table for Reuse.....................................................................................................................................	305
Replace Blanks in a Pivot Table with Zeros................................................................................................................................	306
Collapse and Expand Pivot Fields................................................................................................................................................	307
Specify a Number Format for a Pivot Table Field......................................................................................................................	308
Preserve Column Widths..............................................................................................................................................................	308
Show Yes/No in a Pivot Table.......................................................................................................................................................	310
Pivot Table Format Defaults.........................................................................................................................................................	311
Format Pivot Tables with the Gallery..........................................................................................................................................	311
None of the 46,273 Built-In Styles Do What My Manager Asks For......................................................................................	313
Select Pivot Table Parts For Formatting......................................................................................................................................	314
Apply Conditional Formatting to a Pivot Table.........................................................................................................................	316
Can I Save Formatting in a Template?.........................................................................................................................................	317
Manually Re-sequence the Order of Data in a Pivot Table......................................................................................................	320
Present a Pivot Table in High-to-Low Order by Revenue........................................................................................................	321
Excel 2016 Sometimes Auto-Groups Daily Dates to Month....................................................................................................	322
Group Daily Dates by Month in a Pivot Table...........................................................................................................................	323
Create a Year-Over-Year Report...................................................................................................................................................	325
Group by Week in a Pivot Table...................................................................................................................................................	326
Limit a Pivot Report to Show Just the Top 5 Customers..........................................................................................................	327
Build a Better Top Five Using Groups.........................................................................................................................................	328
Build a Better Top Five with A Filter Hack.................................................................................................................................	329
Build a Better Top 5 Using the Data Model................................................................................................................................	331
Limit a Report to Just One Region..............................................................................................................................................	332
Create an Ad-Hoc Reporting Tool...............................................................................................................................................	333
Create a Report for Every Customer...........................................................................................................................................	333
Create Pivot Charts........................................................................................................................................................................	334
Add Visual Filters to a Pivot Table or Regular Table.................................................................................................................	335
Run Many Pivot Tables From one Slicer.....................................................................................................................................	337
Filter Dates Using a Timeline in Excel 2013 & Newer..............................................................................................................	338
Group Employees Into Age Bands...............................................................................................................................................	339
Create a Frequency Distribution..................................................................................................................................................	339
Grouping 1 Pivot Table Groups Them All..................................................................................................................................	341
Reduce Size 50% Before Sending.................................................................................................................................................	343
Drag Fields to the Pivot Table......................................................................................................................................................	345
Create a Report That Shows Count, Min, Max, Average, Etc...................................................................................................	346
Better Calculations with Show Values As...................................................................................................................................	347

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Pivot Ranks Don’t Match RANK()..............................................................................................................................................	349
Calculated Fields in a Pivot Table................................................................................................................................................	350
Add a Calculated Item to Group Items in a Pivot Table...........................................................................................................	351
Group Text Fields to Build Territories........................................................................................................................................	353
Calculations Outside of Pivot Tables...........................................................................................................................................	355
Show Customer Account & Name...............................................................................................................................................	358
Show Months with Zero Sales......................................................................................................................................................	360
Create a Unique List of Customers with a Pivot Table..............................................................................................................	361
Use a Pivot Table to Compare Two Lists.....................................................................................................................................	362
Use a Pivot Table When There Is No Numeric Data.................................................................................................................	363
Fix Misspelled Customer Names.................................................................................................................................................	364
Create a Pivot Table from Access Data........................................................................................................................................	365
What Happened to Multiple Consolidation Ranges in Pivot Tables?.....................................................................................	365
What are the Products in Power BI And How Can I Get Them?............................................................................................	367
Know if You Have 32-Bit or 64-Bit Excel....................................................................................................................................	367
Load and Clean Data with Power Query....................................................................................................................................	368
Power Query is Easier to Learn than VBA Macros...................................................................................................................	368
I Have More than 1,048,576 Rows of Data.................................................................................................................................	368
Load a List of File Names into Excel...........................................................................................................................................	369
Load a Folder of CSV Files into a Single Excel Worksheet.......................................................................................................	369
My Headings Repeat Every 60 Rows...........................................................................................................................................	370
Fill in Blanks with Values from Above........................................................................................................................................	371
Use Power Query to Clean Data Already in Excel.....................................................................................................................	371
Pivot from Multiple Tables in Excel 2013 Data Model.............................................................................................................	372
Reporting from the Smaller Side of the Relationship...............................................................................................................	373
Use Joiner Tables Between Tables................................................................................................................................................	374
Five Reasons to Use Power Pivot.................................................................................................................................................	375
Why Isn’t Power Pivot Tab in the Ribbon?.................................................................................................................................	375
Get Excel Data Into Power Pivot..................................................................................................................................................	375
Open the Power Pivot Window....................................................................................................................................................	376
Define Relationships Between Tables..........................................................................................................................................	376
Sort Month Name by Month Number........................................................................................................................................	377
Create a Calendar Table................................................................................................................................................................	378
The Formulas are called DAX.......................................................................................................................................................	378
Adding Calculations In the Power Pivot Grid...........................................................................................................................	378
Refer to a Related Table in a Formula.........................................................................................................................................	379
Creating the Power Pivot Table....................................................................................................................................................	380
Building the Pivot Table................................................................................................................................................................	380
Feature X Won’t Work in Power Pivot.........................................................................................................................................	380
Replace Calculated Fields with DAX...........................................................................................................................................	381
Calculate() is Like SUMIFS().......................................................................................................................................................	382
Unapply a Filter Using DAX.........................................................................................................................................................	382
Unfilter Using Time Intelligence..................................................................................................................................................	384
Convert Power Pivot to Formulas................................................................................................................................................	384
January Actuals and February Plan.............................................................................................................................................	384
Power View Is Replaced with Power BI......................................................................................................................................	386
Power BI Transforms Excel Data into Interactive Dashboards................................................................................................	386
First POwer BI Step: Get a Free Account for Power BI.............................................................................................................	386
Optional Step 1: Take the Sample Dashboards for a Spin.........................................................................................................	387
Use Q&A to Investigate Your Data..............................................................................................................................................	388
Click a Dashboard Element to Open the Underlying Report..................................................................................................	389
Click in one Chart to Filter Other Charts...................................................................................................................................	389
Enable Drill-Down Mode.............................................................................................................................................................	390
Sorting is Hidden Behind More Options....................................................................................................................................	391
Optional Step 2: Connect to an Existing Service.......................................................................................................................	391
Download Power BI Desktop to Your Computer......................................................................................................................	392
Prepare Your Excel Data for Power BI........................................................................................................................................	392
Add a Calendar Table....................................................................................................................................................................	393
Three Icons in Power BI Desktop.................................................................................................................................................	394
In Power BI Desktop, the Power Query Tools Are Called Get Data.......................................................................................	394
Load Your Excel Data to Power BI Desktop...............................................................................................................................	395
In Power BI Desktop, the Power Pivot tools are called Modeling...........................................................................................	396
Define Relationships in Power BI Desktop.................................................................................................................................	396
Classify Your Geography Fields in Power BI Desktop..............................................................................................................	397
Prevent Power BI from Adding Up Year Fields..........................................................................................................................	398
Sort This by That............................................................................................................................................................................	399

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Define Synonyms in Power BI Desktop......................................................................................................................................	399
Hide Columns So They Can't Be Chosen...................................................................................................................................	400
Three Ways to BUild Visualizations in a Report........................................................................................................................	401
FOrmatting a Chart.......................................................................................................................................................................	402
Add Lines using Analytics............................................................................................................................................................	403
Adding More Visualizations to a Page........................................................................................................................................	403
It is Insanely Easy to Build a Hierarchy.......................................................................................................................................	403
Open Source Visualizations..........................................................................................................................................................	404
Every Chart is a Slicer For Other Charts....................................................................................................................................	406
A Report Can Have Multiple Pages.............................................................................................................................................	406
Using Maps in Power BI Desktop................................................................................................................................................	406
Three Types of Filters....................................................................................................................................................................	407
Where is the Top 10 Filter?...........................................................................................................................................................	407
Add Titles, Logos, & Embelishments..........................................................................................................................................	408
Don't Forget to Save Your File!.....................................................................................................................................................	408
Share Your Dashboard to Power BI in the Cloud......................................................................................................................	408
Use Quick Insights.........................................................................................................................................................................	409
View Your Report in a Browser....................................................................................................................................................	409
Q&A Works on Dashboards, Not Reports.................................................................................................................................	409
Share a Dashboard With Your Manager.....................................................................................................................................	410
Wait a Second - a Sharing Link? Isn't this Dangerous?.............................................................................................................	411
Consume Your Dashboard Using Power BI Mobile..................................................................................................................	411
What Does All Of This Cost?.......................................................................................................................................................	411
How Do I Update My Dashboard Every Day?...........................................................................................................................	412
That's All For Power BI In This Book..........................................................................................................................................	412
Put a Pivot Table on a Map In Excel 2013 Power Map..............................................................................................................	412
Tricks for Navigating the Map in Power Map............................................................................................................................	413
Fine-Tuning Power Map...............................................................................................................................................................	413
Creating a Video from Power Map..............................................................................................................................................	414
Use an Alternate Map for Power Map.........................................................................................................................................	415
Filtering in Power Map..................................................................................................................................................................	416
Excel Data to Mailing Labels in Word.........................................................................................................................................	416
Excel 2013 Allows Slicers on Regular Tables..............................................................................................................................	417
Use Power Query to Load Many Web Pages..............................................................................................................................	418
Create a Chart with One Click.....................................................................................................................................................	423
Teach Excel Your Favorite Chart..................................................................................................................................................	423
Move a Chart..................................................................................................................................................................................	424
Copy a Chart Detached from the Data.......................................................................................................................................	425
Add New Data to a Chart..............................................................................................................................................................	426
Excel 2013 Offers Easy Chart Formatting ..................................................................................................................................	427
Begin Excel 2010 Formatting on Design.....................................................................................................................................	428
The Chart Layout Tab Is Missing in Excel 2013.........................................................................................................................	428
Formatting Charts in Excel 2010 with Layout...........................................................................................................................	429
Legend At the Top..........................................................................................................................................................................	430
The 2010 Format Dialog Box is a Task Pane in 2013.................................................................................................................	430
Display an Axis in Millions...........................................................................................................................................................	431
Select Anything on a Chart to Format........................................................................................................................................	432
The Format Dialog Box Offers a New Trick...............................................................................................................................	433
Use Meaningful Chart Titles........................................................................................................................................................	433
Avoid 3-D Chart Types.................................................................................................................................................................	434
Prevent the Drop to Zero..............................................................................................................................................................	435
Explode One Slice of the Pie.........................................................................................................................................................	436
Move Small Pie Slices To Second Chart......................................................................................................................................	437
Add a Trendline to a Chart...........................................................................................................................................................	438
See Detail on Large & Small Data Points....................................................................................................................................	439
Chart Two Series with Differing Orders of Magnitude............................................................................................................	440
Hide Subtotals From Chart in Excel 2013..................................................................................................................................	442
Create Pivot Charts from Detail Data in Excel 2013.................................................................................................................	443
Use Formulas for Chart Labels in Excel 2013............................................................................................................................	444
Interactive Chart to Show One Customer..................................................................................................................................	444
Tie the Chart Title to a Cell..........................................................................................................................................................	446
Excel 2016 Adds a Waterfall Chart..............................................................................................................................................	446
Use an Invisible Series to Float Columns....................................................................................................................................	447
Use Rogue Series for Shading.......................................................................................................................................................	449
Two Stacked, One Clustered Column.........................................................................................................................................	451
Conditional Format a Chart.........................................................................................................................................................	452

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Scatter Charts are Versatile But Require a Different Workflow...............................................................................................	454
When do I Use Which Chart Type?.............................................................................................................................................	459
Track Sales Leads with a Funnel Chart.......................................................................................................................................	461
Create Tiny Charts with Sparklines.............................................................................................................................................	462
Sparklines Are Not Scaled Together............................................................................................................................................	463
What is the Win Loss Sparkline For?..........................................................................................................................................	464
Labeling Sparklines........................................................................................................................................................................	465
Shade the Normal Range in a Sparkline......................................................................................................................................	466
Convert a Table of Numbers to a Visualization.........................................................................................................................	466
Control Values for Each Icon.......................................................................................................................................................	469
Add Icons to Only the Good Cells...............................................................................................................................................	470
Use the SIGN Function for Up/Flat/Down Icon Set.................................................................................................................	470
Data Bars Options..........................................................................................................................................................................	471
Comparative Histogram................................................................................................................................................................	472
Select Every Kid in Lake Wobegon..............................................................................................................................................	472
There is a Font Optimized for Excel............................................................................................................................................	472
Show Checkmarks in Excel...........................................................................................................................................................	473
Add Bullets to Excel.......................................................................................................................................................................	473
Use the Border Tab in Format Cells............................................................................................................................................	474
Remove Borders from Filled Cells...............................................................................................................................................	476
Double Underline a Grand Total.................................................................................................................................................	476
Why Did the Colors Change in Excel 2013?..............................................................................................................................	477
Where Are My Excel 2003 Colors?..............................................................................................................................................	478
Transform Black-and-White Spreadsheets to Color by Using a Table....................................................................................	478
Fit a Slightly Too-Large Value in a Cell.......................................................................................................................................	479
Turn Off Wrap Text in Pasted Data.............................................................................................................................................	480
Delete All Pictures in Pasted Data...............................................................................................................................................	480
Prevent Long Text from Spilling..................................................................................................................................................	481
Show Two Values in a Split Cell...................................................................................................................................................	482
For Each Cell in Column A, Have Three Rows in Column B..................................................................................................	482
Show Results as Fractions.............................................................................................................................................................	483
Better Scientific Notation..............................................................................................................................................................	484
Fill a Cell with Asterisks................................................................................................................................................................	485
I type 152 and get 1.52...................................................................................................................................................................	485
Use Cell Styles to Change Formats..............................................................................................................................................	486
Add Your Own Styles....................................................................................................................................................................	487
Share Styles Between Workbooks................................................................................................................................................	487
Move Columns by Sorting Left to Right.....................................................................................................................................	488
Move Columns Using Insert Cut Cells........................................................................................................................................	489
Move Rows or Columns with Shift Drag....................................................................................................................................	489
Select All Cells Using the Keyboard............................................................................................................................................	489
Change the Width of All Columns with One Command.........................................................................................................	490
Copy Column Widths to a New Range.......................................................................................................................................	490
Copy Row Heights.........................................................................................................................................................................	491
Use White Text to Hide Data........................................................................................................................................................	491
Hide Values Using a Number Format.........................................................................................................................................	492
Hide and Unhide Data..................................................................................................................................................................	492
Group Columns Instead of Hiding Them...................................................................................................................................	493
Hide Error Cells When Printing..................................................................................................................................................	494
Unhide All Sheets...........................................................................................................................................................................	494
Very Hide a Worksheet.................................................................................................................................................................	495
Organize Your Worksheet Tabs with Color................................................................................................................................	495
Copy Formatting to a New Range................................................................................................................................................	496
Copy Without Changing Borders................................................................................................................................................	497
Power Up Format Painter.............................................................................................................................................................	498
Fill Formatting................................................................................................................................................................................	498
Change All Red Font Cells to Blue Font.....................................................................................................................................	499
Replace Partially Bold Cells..........................................................................................................................................................	500
Change the Look of Your Workbook with Document Themes...............................................................................................	501
Create Your Own Theme...............................................................................................................................................................	502
Bring Back the Office 2010 Colors And Shiny Objects.............................................................................................................	503
Change the Background of a Worksheet.....................................................................................................................................	504
Add a Printable Background to a Worksheet.............................................................................................................................	504
Remove Hyperlinks Automatically Inserted by Excel...............................................................................................................	505
Select a Hyperlink Cell Without Following the Hyperlink......................................................................................................	505
Pasted URLs Don’t Become Hyperlinks......................................................................................................................................	506

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Debug Using a Printed Spreadsheet............................................................................................................................................	506
Leave Helpful Notes with Cell Comments.................................................................................................................................	507
Change the Appearance of Cell Comments...............................................................................................................................	508
Control How Your Name Appears in Comments......................................................................................................................	510
Force Some Comments to ALWAYS Be Visible to Provide a Help System............................................................................	510
Change the Comment Shape to a Star.........................................................................................................................................	511
Add a Pop-up Picture of an Item in a Cell..................................................................................................................................	513
Add a Pop-up Picture to Multiple Cells......................................................................................................................................	513
Build Reports Where Columns in Each Section 1 Don’t Line Up...........................................................................................	514
Paste a Live Picture of a Cell.........................................................................................................................................................	515
Add Formatting to Pictures in Excel...........................................................................................................................................	516
Remove Picture Background........................................................................................................................................................	517
Inserting a Screen Clipping..........................................................................................................................................................	517
Draw an Arrow to Visually Illustrate That Two Cells Are Connected....................................................................................	518
Add Connectors to Join Shapes....................................................................................................................................................	519
Circle a Cell on Your Worksheet..................................................................................................................................................	520
Draw Perfect Circles......................................................................................................................................................................	521
Add Text to Any Closed Shape.....................................................................................................................................................	522
Place Cell Contents in a Shape.....................................................................................................................................................	522
Rotate a Shape.................................................................................................................................................................................	523
Create Dozens of Lightning Bolts................................................................................................................................................	524
Make a Logo into a Shape.............................................................................................................................................................	525
Draw Business Diagrams with Excel...........................................................................................................................................	527
Choose the Right Type of SmartArt............................................................................................................................................	528
Use the Text Pane to Build SmartArt..........................................................................................................................................	529
Change a SmartArt Layout...........................................................................................................................................................	530
Format SmartArt............................................................................................................................................................................	531
Switch to the Format Tab to Format Individual Shapes............................................................................................................	533
Use Cell Values as the Source for SmartArt Content................................................................................................................	534
Add WordArt to a Worksheet......................................................................................................................................................	536
Chart and SmartArt Text Is Automatically WordArt................................................................................................................	536
Excel 2013 Offers an Excel App Store..........................................................................................................................................	537
Add a Dropdown to a Cell............................................................................................................................................................	537
Configure Validation to “Ease up”...............................................................................................................................................	538
Use Validation to Prevent Duplicate Data Entry.......................................................................................................................	540
Use Validation to Create Dependent Lists..................................................................................................................................	540
Add a ToolTip to a Cell to Guide the Person Using the Workbook........................................................................................	542
Combine Validation with AutoComplete...................................................................................................................................	542
Afterword........................................................................................................................................................................................	543
Index................................................................................................................................................................................................	544

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