There is an MS excel alternative… …Its very nice, powerful, and moreover its free Just a few days back I had some issues with my office installation. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but didn’t work. I was so frustrated so desperately started looking for an excel alternative (you can understand my frustration) Just started googling with a search phrase ‘best alternatives to MS Office‘, ‘list of free substitutes to excel’ etc…...
Pivot tables are great for summarizing and analyzing data. I use it very often and I believe you too. But there is a small problem… …i.e. pivot tables do not show repeated column labels or content. Meaning – we need to fill blanks in pivot table to do v-lookup Ok..its difficult explain so here is an example. In my above example, the region “East” has appeared once and similarly other regions as well....
We want to generate $1m Revenue in 2018 said by CEO. Well, that’s ambitious goal… Considering our current year Revenue is at $0.7m but how do we achieve that..? let’s see if we can use Excel Goal Seek to put some foundations. By the way, we are into Chocolate business. I’ll walk you through step by step on building various models to achieve 1m revenue target by using Goal Seek in excel....
People who use Pivot Tables regularly knows this issue very well. ….i.e. manually refreshing pivot tables in your workbooks. It’s perfectly alright to use the manual method if you have one or two pivot tables in your reports. …but what if you have 5 to 10 pivot tables and then you will need to refresh all of them regularly..? Well.. that’s a boring job. So with that in mind, I have written this tutorial to help you build your own Pivot table refresh macro to automate the process....
If you haven’t used excel data validation drop down list in your reports then you are mostly missing something “really big”. The combination of well-structured drop down list and formulas like Indirect, Sumifs & Vlookup are the deadly combinations for Excel dashboards. So, in this step by step tutorial, I’m going to cover how to create drop down list in excel. We will also cover some of the advanced techniques to create data validation list multiple selections using Indirect formula....