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June 2009 - The Excel Team Blog

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  • New Change to the Excel blog

    I’d like to take this opportunity to announce a new feature of the blog, which some of you might have noticed already. Our Content Publishing team has begun collecting “Power Tips” from members of the Excel community, including the product team, Excel MVPs, user group members, and other Excel enthusiasts. Power Tips are intermediate-level “How-to” tips that you can use to enhance your spreadsheets. We hope they’ll be valuable to those of you who feel pretty proficient with Excel, but who don’t consider...

  • Week Numbers in Excel

    Today’s author is, Ron de Bruin, an Excel MVP . You can find more useful tips from Ron and links to Excel add-ins at his website: http://www.rondebruin.nl/ There are four primary week numbering systems in use worldwide. Each system has subtle differences that you should be aware of. Excel can work with any of these systems: 1)  ISO Week number: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO8601:2000 Standard. All weeks begin on a Monday. Week one starts on Monday of the first week...

  • Formula to Access a List of Values Interspersed with Zeros or Blanks

    Today’s author is Bob Umlas, an Excel MVP since 1994. This tip is a formula which enables you to access a list of values interspersed with zeros or blanks and pick up only the non-zero values in the same sequence they’re listed. It’s better to illustrate. Suppose you have this list in A1:A14: …and you want to produce this list: The following formula entered in E1 and filled down to E6 does the trick. It’s an array formula which means that you must press Ctrl+Shift+Enter after entering the formula...
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