Random Group Generator in Excel
One requirement that you will see as part of a classroom environment is the necessity to create groups. One option is to perform this process manually. This is OK if you have ten people.
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Excel Password Remover 2008 (Tool Thursday)
If you’ve forgotten the password to edit the Excel file Excel Password Remover 2008 can come to your rescue. Excel Password Remover is a FREE Excel add-in that removes/cracks sheet and workbook password protection in Excel®. This program will remove passwords of any length, also passwords containing special characters.
Creating Custom Labels in Microsoft Word 2007 (Tutorial Thursday)
Last year, as part of our admissions team duties, we were required to send out prospectus to students all over India. These ranged from a minimum of fifty envelopes to over 150 at a time. During a promotion campaign we printed around 90,000 labels!
Two Variable Data Tables in Microsoft Excel Tutorial
Three weeks back I covered creating Single Variable Data Tables in Excel. As promised, in this tutorial I will cover creating a two variable data table. This tutorial assumes that you have read the earlier one and are comfortable with creating a single variable data table.
ProduKey (Tool Tuesday)
So, you realize it is time to reinstall your operating system and all the other software that you require. And then you realize, “Now where did I put those serials!” This is where ProduKey comes to the rescue.
Data Tables in Excel tutorial
In my last Excel Tutorial, I covered using SUMIFS and SUMPRODUCT.
Data Tables is also an advanced topic in Microsoft Excel that falls under the category of What-If Analysis. What-If or Sensitivity Analysis is carried out to study the variation of the output to changes in the input variable.
Consider a case of compound interest, where you invest a certain amount of money in a bank deposit and the amount is compounded every year.
Formula for calculating compound interest:
A = P * (1 + r/n) ^ nt
Where:
- P = principal amount (initial investment)
- r = annual interest rate (as a decimal)
- n = number of times the interest is compounded per year
- t = number of years
- A = amount after time t
Now, if suppose we want to see what the final amount will be at different interests rates, we can quickly use a data table for the same.
Excel Tutorial: SUMIF with Multiple Conditions
The title of the post is a bit of a misnomer because the SUMIF function in Excel does not allow you to have more than condition.
Excel 2007 introduced the SUMIFS function which allowed for multiple conditions. However, if you are using any version prior to Excel 2007 or if the persons who will be using your Excel workbook will be using a version prior to Excel 2007, then the SUMIF function will throw up an error.
That is a problem a colleague faced at work. To solve this problem you can use SUMPRODUCT along with double negation. The double negation is simply two minus signs one after an another. The net effect is that it doesn’t change the value of the calculations.
The reason we use the double negation is because, Excel does not always understand that TRUE=1 and FALSE=0 when you use SUM or SUMPRODUCT.
Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs
In Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Comparison, Sarah Perez gives us an extremely detailed comparison of Office Live and Google Docs, two of the biggest competitors in the fight for the best online office suite.
Software Saturday: Foxit Reader
Using Adobe Reader has been the traditional method of viewing PDFs, can’t blame them since they are after all the main folks behind the PDF revolution. However, one complain that everyone has had wrt Adobe Reader has been its massive load time. I will admit that the latest version, 8, does load extremely quickly.
The Ultimate List of Free Office Software from Microsoft
After the Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft, The Road to Know Where now has the Ultimate List of Free Office Software from Microsoft! I didn’t even know that such a lot of software even existed! Go crazy!