How to Set Goals in Five Steps

Many people create goals – but few of those goals are ever reached. In this video I show you how to write a contact with yourself to reach your goal in five structured steps.

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Create a Month, Quarter, Year Report with 10 Mouse Clicks Using Pivot Tables

With an Excel Pivot Table you can transform thousand of rows of transactions into a neat summary by month, quarter and year using @ 10 mouse clicks!

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Summarize Fiscal Year by Month and Quarter with a Pivot Table

Excel Pivot Tables can quickly group dates by Month, Quarter and Year. If your company uses a Fiscal Year,  then be sure that your source data contains columns to identify the Fiscal Year and the Fiscal Quarter before you create the Pivot Table. Watch how this is done.

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Many people would like to know how to create Pivot Tables in Excel, but they are afraid to try them because they fear that they will “harm the data”in the source worksheet. Here is the good news! With a Pivot Table, you cannot possibly harm or even change the source data!
Watch as I show you how to create a Pivot Table – you will be amazed at how easy they are to create, and even more amazed at how powerful they are in helping you to analyze your data.
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How to Save Hours Updating Pivot Tables in Excel 2007

This Excel 2007 Training Video could – conservatively – save you at least one hour each month when you need to update your Pivot Tables!

What is that worth to you and your company? $100.00? $500.00? – Multiply that by 12 for each month in the year…

Have I got your attention yet?

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If you watched this short – 3 minute 20 second video lesson, you can tell that I am excited about this topic. Would you like to trade 3 1/2 minutes to watch this video in order to save hundreds of $$$ each month to get an updated Pivot Table?  If your answer is anything other than “Yes!”, please send me an email – I would like to know what I am missing.”

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Changing Pivot Table Summaries in Excel 2007

In this Excel Video Lesson I demonstrate how to show an additional Pivot Table Summary, “Percentage of Total,”  alongside a traditional ( Sum of Amount) subtotal. It is easy to do – if you know where to look. In the Field Settings Dialog Box for your Pivot Table, click on the “Show Values As” tab and then select the option that you want from the drop-down listing. In this lesson I use “% of Column.”

Watch me demonstrate how to do this.

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I Have Updated My Index of Excel Video Lessons

As part of the process of reorganizing my website, I have updated my “Index of Excel Video Lessons” page. The content of this page will be updated as I add each new Excel Video Training Lesson. So, I suggest that you click here to go to the Video Index and then save the page as one of your “Favorites” if you want to learn how to really get the most out of Excel or to find a quick answer when you are using Excel.

On the Index Page you can see an organized listing of my Excel Videos by Category – e.g. Formulas, Formatting, Pivot Tables “What-if” Analysis, etc. Each lesson is “hyperlinked” so that you can just click on the topic to go directly to the lesson that you are interested in.

I indicate in the title if the lesson is specific to Excel 2007.  All my new Excel video lessons are created using Excel 2007.

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View Excel Worksheets Side by Side

This is another Excel 2007 Video Lesson that I created in response to a view’s request for help. Excel 2007 makes it quite easy to view two worksheets “side by side,” but there are a couple of “got’cha steps” to be aware of in order to make this work for you.

First, I want to clarify the difference between three similar words that I use in this lesson – “Windows, Workbooks, Worksheets.” We will be opening up multiple Windows in order to compare multiple Worksheets which can be part of one or more Workbooks. “Windows, Workbooks, Worksheets” – Oh My!

It is easier to show you the difference, so let’s view this lesson.

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Three Frustrations When Calculating TIme in Excel

When I am training a class to use MS Excel, I always get at least one question about performing time calculations. I sense that the person asking the question is frustrated. When I ask, “How many of you are frustrated when you try to perform a calculation to total time periods in Excel?” nearly every hand is raised! And they are right; Excel’s time calculations can cause frustration.

In this video lesson, I will show you how to overcome three common frustrations that you may have when performing time calculations in Excel.

Here are the steps to follow in this Excel Training Video:

  1. Format the cell that contains the formula =End_Time – Start_Time) to the Custom Number Format h:mm
  2. I encourage you to use this formula instead of a simple formula: =IF(End_Time < Start_Time, End_Time + 1, End_Time)-Start_Time.
  3. This will eliminate any possible “Negative times” which result in a cell filled with ######### A Negative Time is frequently the result of “Time Periods that Span Midnight. e.g. Start @ 11:00 PM and End @ 3:00 AM
  4. TIP: Use this Formula =MOD(End_Time – Start_Time, 1) This is the MODULUS Function.
  5. When you calculate the total number of hours and the result exceeds 24 hours, use this Format [h]:mm

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The NASCAR Approach to Saving Time in MS Excel

This morning, while I was teaching a class to use MS Excel 2003, a young man in the class called out, “I get it!”

I replied, “That’s great, Ian. What did you get?”

“It’s NASCAR!”

“NASCAR?” I replied – somewhat puzzled.

He explained. “In NASCAR Racing, the pit crews save a second here and a quarter of a second there. That’s how they win the race.”

So, there you go – “It’s NASCAR!” Saving a few seconds here and a few seconds there is how you win the business race. Watch this video to see how to save time when creating multiple formulas.

Here are the steps to follow in this video:

  1. To AutoSum BOTH the Columns AND the Rows with one-click of the mouse:
  2. Select the range of cells containing the values that you want to total PLUS the blank cells immediately to the RIGHT and immediately BELOW.
  3. Click the AutoSum ICON. Amaze your friends.
  4. If you like Keyboard Shortcuts. Instead of clicking the AutoSum Icon, use Alt+=

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