Blog & Excel Tips

GETPIVOTDATA is a brilliant formula that allows you to effectively run a VLOOKUP within a Pivot Table. It is possible to make the GETPIVOTDATA use dynamic references but the one that doesn't work so well is the Data Field.

You've built your Pivot Table in MS Excel, but the column and row labels are not showing the name of the relevant field. How can you fill the empty labels with the headings in a Pivot Table?

Conditional formatting is a useful feature but there are times that you need to remove either all the conditional formatting or else the conditional formatting on specific cells. Two ways of how to remove conditional formatting in MS Excel.

...Problem is that if ALL the workbooks aren't open, instead of seeing the numbers you see #Value! errors.  Can you address the situation where SUMIFS returns value when linked workbooks are closed?

When using Microsoft Excel you often end up with a logical answer i.e. a TRUE or a FALSE. In Excel TRUE and FALSE are actually seen as the numbers 1 (True) and 0 (False). So how can you turn TRUE FALSE into numbers in Excel?

In several of our recent public courses we have mentioned and shown a bit of what MS Excel's PowerQuery can do. Due to the amount of people that are interested we are going to run a 1 day PowerQuery in MS Excel course on the 14th June 2018 in Johannesburg. To get more information email mashooda@AuditExcel.co.za.

As useful as Conditional formatting is, it is sometimes nice to be able to pause/ switch off conditional formatting in MS Excel. So ideally you want a switch that says something like Switch On/ Off Conditional formatting. When the switch is set as 'Off', the conditional formatting is made inactive. 

One of the most common queries we get is more information about our MS Excel VBA training course. Although we offer a VBA course and are happy to provide it, we strongly believe in teaching the correct tools to the correct people. We don't want you to waste money on a course when there are easier, more understandable ways to achieve the same thing.