Guy Kawasaki’s guide to creating a financial forecast in Excel
You’ve finished your business plan and polished the pitch for investors. As an entrepreneur you know what comes next: number-crunching. To clinch funding, you need a financial projection that shows...
View ArticleYes, it is possible to create nice looking spreadsheets
15 Spreadsheet Formatting Tips For the last couple years I’ve been meaning to pull together some of the tips that I’ve learned working on the Excel team about how to make nice looking spreadsheets....
View ArticleFive most popular posts on the Excel blog in 2011
It’s still January. There’s still time to share the most popular posts on the Excel blog in 2011. Thanks for reading them! Can’t remember all those Excel keyboard shortcuts? Now you don’t have to!...
View ArticleExcel: The Basics (Video)
For those of us who crunch words instead of numbers, Excel can be intimidating. We don’t know the difference between a workbook and a worksheet, and for sure don’t know to ask about conditional...
View ArticleSimplifying data entry with a list box and VBA code
We show you how we used an ActiveX list box control and some VBA code to allow our users to enter multiple choices in cells. …(read more)
View ArticleGo beyond the basic chart type
Excel comes with lots of predefined chart types, including column, line, pie, and so on. However, many of you ask how to make other kinds of charts, such as floating column charts, Gantt charts,...
View ArticleCircular Reference? Excel’s most popular (!#?%) error message explained
Millions of people using Excel don’t get why they see the “circular reference” error message right after they’ve entered a formula. The message means that your formula is trying to calculate its own...
View ArticleExcel: not just for geeks
Ugh. Excel. It’s not as intuitive as a Word doc, and not as aesthetically pleasing as a PowerPoint presentation. If you’re more creative than analytical, you might feel as though it’s dry and boring...
View ArticleVLOOKUP Week Wraps Up: Vote For Your Favorite Post
VLOOKUP Week has ended. The brainchild of Excel MVP Bill Jelen, the idea inspired all things VLOOKUP, including VLOOKUP odes, haikus, vampires, and a way to track shark attacks. Setting all fun...
View ArticleVLOOKUP Tutorial: Updating prices in a master price list
In honor of VLOOKUP Week, MVP Bill Jelen has created a VLOOKUP tutorial for those of you who have a basic working knowledge of Excel but want to improve your skills. This tutorial assumes you’ve heard...
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