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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...

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How 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...

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VBA 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...

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How 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...

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Excel 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...

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Troubleshooting 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...

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Christmas 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...

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How 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....

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Fix 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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Will 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...

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Prevent 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...

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TSG 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...

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Add 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...

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How 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...

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The 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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Writing 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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