Building a Pivot Table on any flat Text file

Posted by schone on August 1st, 2008

Pivot Tables are a great tool for manipulating your data but when it comes to choosing which data source you want to manipulate the list is almost endless, especially with any flat text file, and yes, WITHOUT VBA! Here is a cheat sheet to get you started!

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Using the AND / OR operators in Excel

Posted by schone on July 15th, 2008

Coming from a SQL programming background you might find it difficult trying to adapt the AND / OR operators to your Excel formulas, so here is a method that I use to solve this problem.

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Changing your Excel chart series order

Posted by schone on July 3rd, 2008

Here is a quick tip on how to change the order of your series from an Excel chart.

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Creating Web 2.0 Style Objects in Excel and PowerPoint 2003

Posted by schone on July 1st, 2008

previewAfter playing around with Excel and PowerPoint 2007, I was very impressed at the way you can format your objects to look very Web 2.0ish, but as I use 2003 at work a lot I wanted to see if I could replicate this.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to change your objects in an Excel 2003 worksheet or PowerPoint 2003 presentation into Web 2.0 style objects.

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Fill in the blank cells of a Pivot Table

Posted by schone on June 30th, 2008

This is a quick tutorial on how you can populate the blank row area cells which are created by a Pivot Table.

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Converting Text to a Date in Excel

Posted by schone on June 26th, 2008

Can’t perform any date formatting on a cell because Excel doesn’t recognise its contents as an ‘actual’ date? Using the DATE() formula can help you convert a text field to a date field!

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Linking an Excel worksheet to a Text file

Posted by schone on June 25th, 2008

Just like Access can create a linked Table to a text file, Excel can do the same using a very quick and simple method.

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How to build a Pivot Chart in a PowerPoint Presentation

Posted by schone on June 23rd, 2008

This tutorial will look at building an interactive (drag and drop, filter etc.) Pivot Chart into your PowerPoint presentation using Microsoft Office Web Components.

Related : Building a Pivot Table into your PowerPoint presentation

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How to link a Pivot Table in Excel to a PowerPoint presentation (V)

Posted by schone on June 23rd, 2008

In this tutorial I will go through how you can link a Pivot Table in Excel to a PowerPoint presentation. I suggest you read a post I did earlier which is a good 101 on linking between Excel and PowerPoint.

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Ranking using Excel Pivot Tables

Posted by schone on June 21st, 2008

Ranking with Pivot Tables is a hidden feature and is a extremely helpful when performing ad hoc analysis, this tutorial goes through a step by step guide on how to rank with Pivot Tables.

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