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Excel's Unpivot Columns, part of Power Query, is an awesome feature. It is the easier way to fix data that isn't in a tabular format. **Power Query - Unpivot columns** You want data in a tabular format so it can be sorted, filtered, and PivotTables created.
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The TODAY function is one of my favorite Date & Time functions in Excel. It returns the current date and will automatically update. We will use the TODAY function with Conditional Formatting and create three rules on a date field. Excel Conditional Formatting with the Today Function The date field
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Accountants use Excel all the time. In this video, which is great for Accounting students, we look at the Accounts Receivable (AR) or Accounts Payable (AP) exercise. **Excel accounting exercise** Accounts Payable is what you, or your company, owe to vendors and suppliers. Accounts Receivable is what is owed to
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Recommended PivotTables in Excel is getting a great update. To use Recommended PivotTables, click the Insert Tab, and click Recommended PivotTables. The new update includes an easy method to change the data range. You also get a task pane on the right side of the screen and can add the
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If you want to calculate how many days are in each month for a year, it is easy to do with a PivotTable in Excel. I want to know how Sundays through Saturdays there are for each month of the year. **Excel PivotTable - Show days per month for the
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I recently spoke at the Administrative Professional Day Conference hosted by the University of Georgia. After reviewing my survey results in Microsoft Forms, I realized I needed to analyze the survey data. Forms results are immediately available in Excel. **Microsoft Forms - Analyze data in Excel** After opening in Excel,
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When you have a range of numbers in Excel and want to figure out the AVERAGE but you have some extreme values that can skew your averages, there is a function that helps solve that problem. **Average using Sum with Max, Min, and Count** You can calculate the AVERAGE in
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The STOCKS data type in Microsoft Excel required manual refresh until now. A new feature released for Microsoft Excel on Desktop for Windows, Mac as well as Excel on the Web, fixes that problem, by allowing you pull almost live stock data into Excel. **Stock data type Refresh every 5
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Which is best in Excel? Classic CHARTS or PIVOTCHARTS? I will show you both ways of creating charts in Excel. I demonstrate step by step what's involved in each method, which one is the most flexible and powerful, and which one I prefer. **Charts vs. PivotCharts** We take
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PivotTables in Excel can create a Distinct Count. An example of a distinct count is we had five orders in one day, but three orders were placed by the same customer. I want to know we have five orders from three customers. **PivotTable with a Distinct Count** To create a
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Excel PivotTables have calculated fields and calculated items. In this video, I will take a field called Year, which has 2022 and 2021 in it and create a calculated item. In case you are wondering, what is the difference between a calculated field and a calculated item? That is easy
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Conditional Formatting is one of Excel's best features. I use it daily. In this short video, I'll get you started using Conditional Formatting. We will look at using five easy Conditional Formatting features. We will use Conditional Formatting with text, numbers, above average, top 10 and