How To Change The Mouse Cursor Icon In Your VBA Userform
Why Change Your Userform's Cursor?There may be certain instances where it makes sense to change the look of the mouse cursor to notify your users of a particular action. A classic case for this is...
View ArticleHow To Change Excel's Group Outline Direction Settings
Excel's row/column grouping functionality is a handy way to consolidate or provide a hierarchical order to your spreadsheet data. The concept is pretty straight-forward, you select some rows or...
View ArticleVBA Guide To Referencing Worksheet Tabs
Referencing Worksheets in ExcelWhen you are working with VBA inside Excel, it is more than likely that you will be automating some sort of changes to a worksheet inside your file. The following VBA...
View ArticleHow To Customize The Order Of Your Excel Slicer Buttons
Slicers Are Great, But Have LimitationsSlicers are a great way to provide interactivity to your Excel spreadsheets. They allow you to ditch the need for drop-down lists and instead give your users the...
View ArticleExcel Weaknesses: A Wishlist For Much Needed Improvements
As Microsoft continues to persuade people to sign up for their Office 365 subscription in lieu of purchasing individual copies of Office, I am hoping that the Office team moves towards sending out...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Excel Print Margins
I came across this oddity today where I was going to print a report someone sent me and the data didn't appear to expand all the way to the right. My printout was looking like the below screenshot...
View ArticleChristmas Expense & Budget Tracker Excel Template 2017 (Free!)
It's That Time Of Year Again!If you love analyzing numbers (and chances are if you are a fan of this website you do), then I am sure you can relate that your skill of tracking digits carries over to...
View ArticleHow To Keep Track Of Your Shapes Created With VBA Code
Lately, I have been writing a lot of VBA code dealing with the creation of shapes and managing them. I want to share one powerful little trick with you that makes the management part a lot easier....
View ArticleFix Excel Found A Problem With Formula References In This Worksheet
How To Troubleshoot This Persistant Error Message If you are reading this article you have probably been frustrated with a persistent error message that Excel keeps showing you stating: Excel found a...
View ArticleHow To Build A Modern-Looking VBA Userform
The Need For A Modern UILet’s face it, VBA Userforms haven’t had much love from Microsoft over the past 10 or so years…..and it shows! Unfortunately, while Excel’s UI gets a fresh paint coat every 3-4...
View ArticleHow To Automatically Run Excel VBA Macros Daily
I’m currently working on a consulting project where a VBA macro within an Excel file needs to run every morning before folks get into the office. As I work through getting this setup, I figured I...
View ArticleWill VBA Die in 2019?
VBA is a coding language used by millions of people across the world to automate tasks in Microsoft Office products. It’s a language that has been around for decades and is one of the easiest coding...
View ArticlePrevent Auto-Hyperlinking In Excel
By default Excel will convert text to a hyperlink if it determines your data is in a URL or email address format. This is typically not a wanted behavior inside spreadsheets and in this article you...
View ArticleTSG HQ - My Home Office Setup
Today I’m going to give you behind-the-scenes access to all the equipment I use here at the TSG headquarters (aka the office space in my basement). I have put hours of research into finding the best...
View ArticleAdd Real-Time Stock Prices And Metrics To Excel
We Finally Got It!On June 5th, 2019 Microsoft released a feature to Office 365 that allows Excel users to pull real-time stock prices into their spreadsheets. This feature was never truly supported in...
View ArticleHow To Install Office 365 Insider Fast Version
What Is The Office Insider Version?The “Insider” version of Office (formerly known as “Insider Fast”) is used to test the latest Microsoft Office features to public users. These features may not be...
View ArticleThe Complete Guide To Excel's XLOOKUP Function
On August 28th, 2019, Microsoft unveiled a new Excel function with the intent of making 3 beloved and rivaled functions obsolete. The targets were:VLOOKUPHLOOKUPINDEX/MATCHThis new function called...
View ArticleHow To Use A Double XLOOKUP Formula
Have you heard of an XLOOKUP/XLOOKUP? No, I didn’t stutter in my writing….there is now such a thing as a Double XLOOKUP formula and it acts a an alternative to the ever popular Index/Match/Match...
View ArticleHow To Create Professional-Looking Progress Bars in Excel
Creating A Progress Bar In ExcelProgress Bars are simple graphics that can be quite visually powerful by instantly providing detail to your audience on how close your team might be to completing a...
View ArticleWriting Your Own Custom Number Formats in Excel
What Are Custom Number Formats?I love to explain number formats in Excel as the clothing of the spreadsheet cell. You can dress your cell values in any way you’d like but even though the outward...
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