Create a Pivot Table in Excel 2007

An introductory video (youtube) by bytebodger describing the use and creation of pivot tables in Excel 2007.  Read More →

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Using Excel to Manage Simple Databases

Here is a video from freetutorials (youtube) on using Excel to manage simple databases.  Read More →

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Bar Chart using REPT function

The REPT function repeats text a given number of times. For example, =REPT(”*”,10) repeats * 10 times in a cell. You can use this function to create a simple bar for values in multiple cells.  Here is a short video on YouTube:  Read More →

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How to configure Office 2007 to save files using the old Office 97-2003 format

Personally, I use Excel 2003 at work and Excel 2007 at home. I am constantly (as in 3 or 4 times a weeks) using Excel 2003 files in Excel 2007. I found this tip at vista4beginners.com showing how to have Office 2007 automatically have files in the Office 2003 format: Configure Microsoft Office 2007 to save files using the old Office 97-2003 format  Read More →

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Pivot Tables – A powerful tool.

At work I use pivot tables nearly every day. My work does not involve analyzing business or financial data and still I find pivot tables very useful in manipulating data sets, performing on-the-fly calculations, and preparing final reports. So, what is a pivot table? A pivot table is a data summarization tool found in data visualization programs such as spreadsheets (e.g. Microsoft Excel). Among other... [Read more]

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