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    More Excel Outside the Box: Unbelievable Excel Techniques from Excel MVP Bob Umlas
    More Excel Outside the Box: Unbelievable Excel Techniques from Excel MVP Bob Umlas
    More Excel Outside the Box: Unbelievable Excel Techniques from Excel MVP Bob Umlas
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    More Excel Outside the Box: Unbelievable Excel Techniques from Excel MVP Bob Umlas

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    A follow-up to Excel Outside the Box, More Excel Outside the Box is designed with the Excel guru in mind, introducing advanced, creative solutions and hacks for the software's most challenging problems. Through a series of more than 30 techniques, tables, formulas, and charts, this guide details processes that may be used in any Excel application and across all disciplines. Creative approaches for building formulas within formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and mastering array formulas are just some of the numerous challenges explained. Other higher-level solutions discussed include using VBA macro code to override cell calculations, solve for sums from a text string, and trimming and cleaning all cells on a worksheet. This is the all-encompassing resource for advanced users of Excel wanting to learn more techniques to broaden and empower their knowledge of the program.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateMay 1, 2015
    ISBN9781615473441
    More Excel Outside the Box: Unbelievable Excel Techniques from Excel MVP Bob Umlas

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      More Excel Outside the Box - Bob Umlas

      by

      Bob Umlas

      Holy Macro! Books

      PO Box 82

      Uniontown OH 44685

      More Excel Outside the Box

      © 2015 by Bob Umlas and Holy Macro! Books

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information or storage retrieval system without written permission from the publisher.

      All terms known in this book to be trademarked have been appropriately capitalized. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are not affiliated with Holy Macro! Books.

      Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and accurate as possible, but not warranty or fitness is implied. The information is provide on an as is basis. The author and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book.

      Printed in the USA by Hess Print Solutions

      First Printing: May 2015

      Author: Bob Umlas

      Cover Design: Shannon Mattiza 6Ft4 Productions

      Publisher: Bill Jelen

      Index: Nellie Jay

      Proofreader: Kurt Nichols

      Published by Holy Macro! Books, PO Box 82, Uniontown OH 44685

      Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago IL

      ISBN 978-1-615470-036-5

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2015940631

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      User Interface Topics

      Using a Conditional Formatting On/Off Switch

      Using Data Validation to Prohibit Entry of Digits

      Making a Change in One Column Based on Criteria in Another (Without VBA)

      Changing Row Height When a Key Field Changes

      Using a Nontrivial Conditional Formatting Formula

      Rearranging Data (Revisiting a Technique from Excel Outside the Box)

      Truncating Text and Showing an Ellipsis (…) After 47 Characters

      Copying Cells Without the Blank Rows

      Alternating Conditional Formatting

      Using Relative Names

      Merging Across

      Using Wildcards in Replace Formula

      Array Formula Topics

      Finding Prime Numbers

      Easily Clearing an Array-Entered Block of Cells

      Determining Whether a Cell Contains a Word from a List of Words

      Using Variable Ranges for Unique Counts

      Extracting Numbers from Text

      VBA Topics

      Partially Matching Words with a User-Defined Function

      Setting Up Many Check Boxes on a Worksheet

      Narrowing Down What Caused a Crash

      Filling a List Box with Months

      Filtering by Data in a Text Box

      Creating a Summary Chart with a Single Click

      Copying Modules or User Forms from One Project to Another

      Using the Locals Window in VBA

      Miscellaneous Topics

      Creating a Gantt Chart from Many Sources (on Steroids!)

      Protecting Tables of Data

      Did You Know…? (a potpourri of miscellaneous ideas)

      Index

      About the Author, Bob Umlas

      Other books by Bob Umlas:

      This isn’t Excel, it’s Magic (2005)

      This isn’t Excel, it’s Magic 2nd Edition (2007)

      Excel Outside the Box (2012)

      Introduction

      There are many Excel books out there; why did I write this one? My daily work involves writing custom applications using Excel and there are many problems I’ve had to think through to come up with a solution in Excel. My previous book, Excel Outside the Box, tackled many of these problems, and I came up against several more – enough to write another book!

      I’ve used these solutions many times in my applications. I have not found any books or articles which described similar issues and solutions, yet it is hard to imagine that Excel developers in other companies hadn’t also come up against these issues. So, given the feedback from my previous version of this book, I thought it was time for another book to help the already-advanced Excel developer get past these hurdles.

      User Interface Topics

      This section explores many ways to validate data, rearrange data, change how data appears, etc. in ways likely not seen before. It explores Conditional Formatting, formulas, some VBA, and more techniques which you will find interesting.

      Using a Conditional Formatting On/Off Switch

      This worksheet uses conditional formatting to highlight each cell that contains a value over 50:

      There are several ways to get this kind of conditional formatting. One way is to use Highlight Cells Rules, as shown here:

      The worksheet above uses a formula, like this:

      This type of conditional formatting can be really

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