Faster VLOOKUP + more Excel tips
April 28, 2015
Make VLOOKUP faster, use keyboard shortcuts, run macros when Excel is closed, and many more tips, in this week's Excel news.
- Debra - ddalgleish@contextures.com
In case you missed them, here are the articles that I posted recently:
Registration is open for Mynda Treacy's Excel Dashboard Course, and the deadline is this Thursday (April 30th). The course is a great investment, and you can read my review for the highlights, and more information.
Level - Intermediate
On the Daily Dose of Excel blog, Jeff Weir checks the speed of the double VLOOKUP trick, that he learned from Charles Williams. This only works on sorted data, so are the faster calculations worth the the extra effort of sorting? Read the comments too -- it's an interesting discussion.
Level - Intermediate
Even when he is sitting in airport lounges, Chandoo is still helping people with Excel problems. Read his tips for highlighting blank cells – he shares 3 ways to do that.
Level - Basic/Intermediate
Have you ever wanted to run an Excel macro, even when Excel is closed? No problem! Zack Barresse shows how you can schedule it to run automatically, if your IT department allows this kind of activity.
Level - Advanced
Do you ever use the Menu key, in the bottom row of your keyboard? MF Wong shows how to save time, by entering shortcuts with that key. In his example, he use our old friend, the Filter By Selection command.
Level - Basic
Ben J. Kusmin shows how to shorten a long text document, by pasting it into Excel, and cleaning it up there, before printing. He uses a transcript as the example, but I've done similar cleanup on other types of documents.
Level - Basic
The first ever Microsoft Americas MVP Virtual Conference will be held online, May 14-15, 2015, with sessions from 8 AM to 6 PM (Pacific Time), both days. When you register for the event, you'll get a confirmation email, with links and the instructions for attending the sessions.
Do decide which sessions to attend, you can see the full agenda, to find sessions you're most interested in.
Level - Intermediate
The videos from the recent OpenVis conference are available online, and I love the Table of Contents that's used to access them. Click on a topic or word at the top, and see a marker, where that occurs in the video. Unfortunately, Excel isn't one of the available words, but I found a reference to it at the 2:00 mark in the video on Scrolling.
Level - Intermediate
My father-in-law made this glass-topped coffee table long ago -- nobody can remember exactly when. As long as I can remember, it was in front of their living room window, and had a collection of plants on it. Now they're downsizing, so the table has come to live at our house. To make it feel at home, I've put my spring seedlings on it, and they seem to be getting along nicely.
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