Posted on June 5th, 2010 by Joseph Harris
Subsidium Business Analytics has released its Excel to PowerPoint converter. We though we would take it for a spin to see how it works and if it is worth the money.
Purchase and Install
The Excel to PowerPoint converter cost $4.99 so my expectation was low. I purchased the add-in and an automatic download began. The install [...]
Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Joseph Harris
The title of this post is slightly misleading. We will not be using vlookup to return the corresponding result of the last condition, but rather we will be mimicking vlookup to pull the last item.
Consider the following data:
George
Smith
Tom
Thompson
George
Kenny
Dan
Jackson
Sally
Richards
George
Daniels
A vlookup of the name George will return Smith, What if you want to lookup the last George listed? The [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2009 by Joseph Harris
There are many times when you may have a lot of data that does not look right when graphed all together. 300 data points is probably too many for a small chart. So what is the solution…scrolling charts! I will show you in this article how to create a scrolling chart without using dynamic ranges. [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by Joseph Harris
The #VALUE error is an error that is seen almost as often as #N/A. In short, the VALUE error occurs when a formula refers to a cell that contains a different than expected format. In this article, I will discuss the main causes of #VALUE! and some possible solutions.
The top 3 causes of #VALUE! error [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Joseph Harris
The #N/A error happens most often when a lookup function cannot find a result. You can manually remove the all of your #N/As or you can stop them in your original formula. A simple and effective way of trapping the #N/A errors and replacing them with whatever you would like is to use the ISNA() [...]
Posted on February 16th, 2009 by Joseph Harris
One of the most time consuming parts of producing a scheduled report is updating all of the charts in the report. Many times, an analyst only wants to show the last 7 days or the last 6 months of data and not the entire data set. To achieve this, the analyst changes the the Y [...]
