Just to have a little fun with the new Twitter account, I thought I'd put together a little Excel tool to make fitting into the 140 character limit a little easier. Simply type what you want to say, and if it exceeds the 140 character limit, it will append "..." to the end, so that the last "." will be the 140th character. That way you'll know how your post will look before … [Read more...]
Highlight Alternating Rows With Conditional Formatting
You can apply conditional formatting to your sheet that will allow you to format every other row however you specify. Select the area where you want to highlight alternating rows. Go to the Format menu and select Conditional Formatting. For Condition 1, select "Formula Is", and type in "=MOD(ROW(),2)=0" if you want to highlight every even row, or type … [Read more...]
Count Colored Cells in a List in Excel 2007
If you have a list with cells of all different colors, you can apply a filter to those cells to have Excel filter them by color, and then apply a formula to count how many of those cells are visible. First, select your list. Right click and choose Filter | Filter by Selected Cells Color. You can then select the filter drop down in your list's first cell and choose which … [Read more...]
Using Fill Handle for the Alphabet
Using the fill handle is easy. Simply start typing a list of consecutive numbers, dates, etc. and drag the rest. You can easily fill 100 cells in no time at all. Well what if you wanted to fill the alphabet down a list of cells? Unfortunately, Excel doesn't have this functionality built in. If you were to start typing the alphabet down column A, so that A1=A, A2=B, A3=C, and … [Read more...]
Watch Window
In large worksheets, it is especially useful to be able to view a cell that contains summary data, such as totals. This can become tedious if your totals are at the end of your worksheet, while the data you're editing is at the beginning, causing you to have to scroll down to be able to see the totals. If you use Excel's Watch Window, you can keep your worksheet's summary … [Read more...]