Me vs Hungarian Notation
Hungarian Notation is a coding convention that many programmers use to (presumably) make their code more understandable. It involves prefixing variable names with a kind of code that describes the...
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Create SQL Server Tables from Excel Data – Free Tool
So I’ve got some time to come up for air and share a tool I’ve pulled together to help me in my client engagements. The work I do often requires me to database existing Excel processes. That means...
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Excel Against Humanity
April Fools is coming up, but it falls on a weekend. So instead a post about pranking your co-workers, I thought I’d give you guys a fun way to spend your Friday. I pulled together an Excel version of...
View ArticleBest Practices for Organizing VBA Modules
A friend of mine recently asked me: “What is the best way to organize the Modules in my Excel workbook?” That is to say, what is the best-practice for organizing VBA code? I’ve searched the web to...
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Pulling SSRS Data Directly into Excel with PowerPivot
As Excel Analysts, we’re often asked to pull data from various sources. One of these sources for many of us is SSRS. SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services). If you’ve pulled data from SSRS before, you’ll...
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Why ‘Your Version’ of Excel only Accept Semicolons in Formulas instead of Commas
Today, I learned how Region settings in Windows can truly botch up Excel. A reader of one of my Pulitzer Prize worthy books sent me an email stating that the example formulas aren’t working. After a...
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Don’t Miss Out – One More Week to Sign Up for Live Power BI Training with Ken...
I’m a HUGE proponent of live training. Webinars and on-line training is fine, but there is nothing like physically being in an environment of like-minded people. Ken Puls is hosting a Power BI Bootcamp...
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Winners of the Excel 5-Minute Challenge
The Excel 5-Minute Challenge has come to an end and the Excel community has chosen the winners! Participants recorded themselves creating a functional dashboard/report in 5 minutes or less. Their...
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Vote for the Winner! Excel 5-Minute Excel Challenge
Ok…all the submissions for the 5-Minute Excel Challenge have come in. I’ve loaded them to YouTube and have opened up voting. I have to say, these videos are different than I expected. After watching...
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Excel 5-Minute Challenge Update
The Excel 5-Minute Challenge is underway, and I’ve received one video so far. Don’t know about the Excel 5-Minute Challenge? Click here to find out. It would be a shame for all these prizes to go...
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Quickly Wrap Formulas in IFERROR without VBA
Here’s a quick tip for quickly wrapping all formulas in IFERROR without VBA. 1. Select the cells that contain the formulas you want wrapped in IFERROR. 2. Press F5 on your keyboard to activate the...
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New Contest for 2017: The Excel 5 Minute Challenge
Happy New Year everyone! I’m back from a few long months of moving into a new house. Now that I’m all settled in, I’d like to start this New Year with a bang. By that, I mean a new Excel Contest! The...
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Creating Map Visualizations within Standard PivotTables
I was puttering around on the internet when I came across Daniel Ferry’s old post on Location mapping in Excel. The idea is that you can use latitudes and longitudes to plot points on a chart. Cool...
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Easy File Search with Tags and the Document Location Widget
I’m back from a long hiatus from blogging. While I was gone, I had a project that involved helping a client tag hundreds of Excel files for easier searching. The Basics of Using Document Tags For those...
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Getting Rid of Ugly Page Break Lines
Have you ever sent an Excel report out to your audience just to find out that it prints on 20 pages? To avoid that embarrassment, I routinely adjust the page breaks on my reports so that users don’t...
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New DataPig Dashboard Tools Free this Week
I’ve completed updating my Dashboard Tools Add-in to add a few new useful tidbits. With the new features, you can create nifty infographics like this one: Here are a few highlights of the new...
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Power Pivot and Power Query for Dummies
Need to get a quick ramp-up on Power Pivot and Power Query? Good news…A new book just dropped on Amazon. Learn how to: Create your own database right in Excel with Power Pivot Make pivot tables that...
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Editing Shape Points to Create Custom Graphics
I’m working on updating my Dashboard Tools Add-in to add more modern looking infographics and maps. I’ve discovered a neat feature called Edit Points. When working with a shape, you can right-click and...
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Entering More than 31 Characters in a Worksheet Tab Name
When giving a worksheet tab a name, most people think that you can’t enter more than 31 characters. But guess what…you can! In this post, I’ll show you how to enter more than 31 characters in a...
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Understanding the MOD function
After weeks of struggling to get this blog upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, it’s finally up and going again. I’ve had to constantly engage in hand-to-hand combat with WordPress over the...
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