Excel Sparklines: Merge Sparkline Cells For Quick and Easy Charts

Excel Sparklines: Merge Sparkline Cells For Quick and Easy Charts

I know, I know.  I am starting to get lazy and I haven’t really done any full length posts but these image posts will at least give you some quick pointers. That being said this is just another visual lesson on how you can use Excel Sparklines with the merging tool to make large charts that represent your data. (more…)

Excel Custom Number Formatting: Turn your values into K (Thousands)

Excel Custom Number Formatting: Turn your values into K (Thousands)

Happy Monday everyone!  This is another very quick post about how you can use some of Excel’s awesome functionality.  In this post I want to show how to use Excel custom number formatting to format a range of numbers into thousands (k).  Simply follow the steps below and you’ll be right on your way.  If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment. (more…)

Excel Camera Tool: How to Use the Camera Tool To Build Excel Dashboard Worksheets

Excel Camera Tool: How to Use the Camera Tool To Build Excel Dashboard Worksheets

I decided to do another short post to save you some time.  This image/post takes a look at how to setup the camera tool and then how you can use it on a separate worksheet to begin the setup of a new dashboard.  The Excel Camera Tool allows you to take an image of a range of cells and create a picture/object out of it.  Once that picture is created, it will automatically continue to refer to the cells that the image was taken of and will update as the cells change.  Feel free to leave any questions in the comments. (more…)

Excel Shortcut: Using Alt + Shift + Right Arrow To Group Your Pivot Table Fields

Excel Shortcut: Using Alt + Shift + Right Arrow To Group Your Pivot Table Fields

This is just another quick little image/post that shows how powerful Excel shortcuts can be.  If you have the time, please leave some of your favorite keyboard shortcuts in the comments – I’d love to hear them.  If you have any specific to pivot tables even better.  Thanks for checking the website out as always!

Cheers to the weekend.

Pivot Table Grouping