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MS Excel LEFT, MID, RIGHT Functions: How To Slice Up Cell Contents

By Violeta | Published: December 8, 2010
Why would anybody want to automate slicing up cell contents in a spreadsheet? If you ever tried to copy a list from a web page or from a .txt file and paste it into Excel with the purpose of creating a database, then you know how frustrating it is to go through cells and edit [...]
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How to make MS Excel macros to run across all sheets

By Violeta | Published: April 30, 2007
MS Excel macros can boost your productivity, saving you a lot of the time you spend on doing boring tasks, such as formatting or printing. If you didn’t know by now, find out how you can use a macro across all worksheets: After you choose Tools, Macros, Record New Macro, in the dialog box, at [...]
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How to assign a toolbar button to a macro in MS Excel

By Violeta | Published: September 28, 2006
Do you know what a macro is? Or how to make a MS Excel macro? Have you ever made a macro? If you had, it means you use it frequently, this is why you made it, isn’t it? It must be boring though, every time you want to run it, to go to the main [...]
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How to hide formulas in MS Excel worksheets

By Violeta | Published: September 27, 2006
This simple exercise supposes that you already know what a MS Excel formula is and that you currently work with formulas. If you do so, then you know that formulas in cells can be seen. A click on the respective cell makes the contained formula visible in the formula bar, just above the worksheet. It [...]
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MS Excel pivot table field settings

By Violeta | Published: August 25, 2006
Pivot table is a command in MS Excel which allows thorough analysis of a given database. It can help you group the information in a table by dynamic criteria. As an example, supposing that you have recorded all the sales you had over the past two years, you can group them to see how much [...]
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