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VBA Code to Lighten or Darken Fill Colors in Excel
I've been on a mission the past two weeks to craft a pair of macros to lighten and dark a cell fill color. The main reason I wanted to do this was to create complimentary colors for my spreadsheet...
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Excel PowerBall Lottery Simulator Spreadsheet
With all the excitement over the $900 Million PowerBall Jackpot this past weekend, I thought it would be interesting to create an Excel-based simulator so I could pretend that I had money to blow on...
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Excel PowerBall Lottery Ticket Checker Spreadsheet
Checking Lottery Picks = PainfulWith the new trend of ginormous lottery jackpots, there seem to be more and more groups of people coming together to purchase as many tickets as possible. Going through...
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Adding Tickmark Indicators To Your Excel Analysis Comments
We Visualize Data, Why Not Commentary?Have you ever heard that age old phrase, "A picture is worth a thousand words"?My guess is you probably have and you intuitively know visuals leave more of an...
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Correcting Shape Assigned Macro Links After Copying Worksheet VBA
Transferring VBA Through Worksheet ObjectsThe easiest way to copy over VBA code while copying your worksheets into a new workbook is to store your VBA macros within the worksheet itself instead of the...
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How To Create Your Own User-Defined Functions With VBA
Hey everyone! Chris here and I want to introduce you to author/blogger Allen Wyatt. Allen has been running a weekly Microsoft Office tips newsletter since 1997! I was absolutely ecstatic when he...
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Best Excel Keyboard Shortcuts For Editing Columns & Rows
Hey everyone! Chris here and I want to introduce you to instructor/blogger Rishabh Pugalia from YodaLearning.com. He has graciously offered to stop by the blog and share with us some of the knowledge...
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Preventing Users From Printing Your Excel Workbook Tabs With VBA
Sometimes when you have models that are dealing with sensitive information, you want to take extra steps to prevent that data from getting passed around. In this article, you will be walked through...
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Combining Text With The CONCAT and TEXTJOIN Excel Functions
Hey everyone! Chris here and I want to introduce you to a new Excel blog called Spreadsheeto. Bloggers Mikkel and Kasper hail from the Denmark where they have been successful in providing online...
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Allow User-Specific Login Credentials To Be Pulled With Excel VBA
There are a ton of great data programs out there that integrate very nicely with Excel. The problem I see handled poorly over and over again is that analysts will store their login credentials...
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Retain Font Formats After Changing An Excel Shape's Formula
This is a frustration I seem to always face while creating dashboards or graphics for Excel reports. I create a super cool callout graphic to bring attention to an important figure in my data. I have...
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How To Add A Center Across Selection Button To Excel's Home Ribbon Tab
Why Center Across?I am a huge advocate for using the Excel functionality of Center Across Selection instead of Merge & Center. The main reason is it forgoes issues with copy/pasting cells that are...
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How To Find And Remove Duplicate Excel Cell Data
Double TroubleI think we have all had our fair share of experiences getting weird outcomes because of duplicate data within our cell ranges. They can easily cause your VLOOKUPs to pull unexpected...
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Top Microsoft Excel Add-ins You Should Consider Using
What Are Add-ins?Add-ins for Excel are similar to the apps you can download and purchase for your smartphone. They are mini software applications that you install into Excel in order to provide...
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My First Microsoft Excel MVP Award!
On July 1st, 2016 I received an email from Microsoft congratulating me on being awarded the Microsoft Excel MVP award for 2016. I was the only new person in the Excel category to receive the award out...
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Top Online Excel & VBA Courses 2016
Choices, Choices, & MORE Choices!With so many educational options available on the internet these days, it can be overwhelming to try and find the perfect course that is going to take your Excel...
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Prevent Microsoft Office Add-ins From Disappearing From The Ribbon Interface
This year (July 2016) Microsoft decided to heighten it's security features and block files that are downloaded from the internet or another computer by default. With regular files like a .xlsx or...
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Dynamically Populating VBA Array Variables To Store Lists of Data
What Are Arrays?Arrays are a variant type variable that you can use in VBA coding to store a list of data. Think of it as a mini-spreadsheet inside of a single variable. You store data into an array...
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Use Yahoo! Finance To Pull Stock Information Into Excel
I've been playing around with building some Stock Tracking tools for Excel and I've learned a lot about how to query data from Yahoo! Finances API to get it into Excel while it's all fresh in my...
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Use VBA To Automatically Adjust Your Charts Y-Axis Min and Max Values
Why Manually Adjust Your Y-Axis?By default, Excel will automatically decide the minimum and maximum values of your vertical (Y) axis. For the most part this will visually work for graphing your data,...
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