[2 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
Bullets for Excel Spreadsheets

Why?

Excel Spreadsheets are used for multiple purposes – from financial models to creating various lists. There are people who uses Excel for creating dumps for data, which includes dumping multiple lines of data in a single cell.

Though Excel comes really handy in such activities, but there is one drawback that makes using Excel cumbersome in such tasks. That is – absence of Bullets & Numbering as available in MS Word or MS PowerPoint. Some people do make-shift arrangements of using a hyphen (–) sign to mark each line entered in a same cell as a new line.

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[26 Jan 2012 | No Comment | ]

Have you ever felt that if you could have that operation automated in MS Excel that you have always been doing manually? Do you have any operation that you do a lot but there is no automatic function / feature available in Excel?

If the above is right then you MUST mention that operation / feature-you-want-in-Excel here. I am trying to write down an Add-in for Excel. But for that I want to add those features which are most commonly used and would help a lot of people.

So, go ahead and leave behind as many would-be-features here. If I like your suggestion / idea, I will contact you back to understand the suggestion / idea better and I may take that idea up and write an Add-in about.

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[30 May 2010 | 5 Comments | ]
How to create dynamic Hyperlinks

I have been using Excel to perform all my stock market record-keeping and stock-tracking activities. I use it to daily get the stock numbers using the external data functionality to know what my daily gains and losses have been. Lately I tried adding another functionality to it and during that I came across a need to use a function that helps create Hyperlinks to web pages. For this I used Hyperlink() function.

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[14 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
Excel Matic gets ranked by Google!

I am writing this post to thank all of you who have visited Excel Matic, even for once. Today, I discovered that Excel Matic has been ranked by Google and Excel Matic has Page Rank of 1.

So, thanks to all of you and do keep visiting Excel Matic.

Excel Basics, General, Queries »

[13 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
What is auto fill in microsoft excel?

Auto fill is the ability of Excel to identify and fill a series of text or numbers, automatically, in a given range. For example, you want to fill down a row, a series of numbers from 1 to 10. There are 2 ways to do it:

One is that you type these numbers manually yourself. This method is fine, if in this case, as there are only 10 numbers to be manually-punched. But what if the series to be filled was 1 to 1,000? …or 10,000?

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[9 Apr 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Grab It (beta 1.6) – A game in MS Excel

Hello everybody!

I was recently working on a small project, wherein I am trying to write a small game in Excel. Yes! A game in MS Excel.

You can download the game here, for FREE! You might have played this game on your mobile phones or your PCs for that matter. But, I tried to write the code in Excel.

Advanced Topics, Excel Functions, Lookup Functions »

[20 Mar 2010 | 5 Comments | ]
Function Match()

Match function is used to get the relative location of a text or value within a specified array.

Syntax:

= Match (Lookup_value, Lookup_array, Lookup_type)

Lookup_value: This value in the function specifies the value or the text (an item) that is to be looked up in the array (or a range of cells)