You can use Microsoft Query in Excel to retrieve data from an Excel Workbook as well as External Data Sources using SQL SELECT Statements. Excel Queries created this way can be refreshed and rerun making them a comfortable and efficient tool in Excel. Microsoft Query allows you use SQL directly in Microsoft Excel, treating Sheets […]
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Excel Pictograph – Charts with Pictures
Today something much lighter than usual, more to do with presenting data than just crunching it – How to Create an Excel Pictograph? Or, in other simpler words, How to Create an Excel Chart with Images! Images are Powerful Stuff! Our Brain processes Images 60 Thousand Times Faster than Text! For us Consultants, Marketers and […]
VBA Status Bar, Progress Bar, Sounds and Emails – Alerts in VBA
Some VBA Macros run for ages – be it minutes or even hours. If we optimized our VBA Macro to the fullest there is often not much more you can do to change that. Usually what is irritating is waiting for VBA Macro code completion. Sitting by your desk is a waste of time – […]
How to Find Duplicates in Excel. Remove Duplicates in Excel
How to find duplicates in Excel? Today we will explore this question in and out. We will start first by understanding How to Highlight Duplicates in Excel. Our second objective will be learning How to Remove Duplicates. I will explore several approaches to this task – using the Data ribbons Remove Duplicates feature, but also […]
Excel VBA Last Row, Last Column, Last Cell
Today I am going to take on one of the most frequent question people ask about Excel VBA – how to the the last row, column or cell of a spreadsheet using VBA. The Worksheet range used by Excel is not often the same as the Excel last row and column with values. Therefore I […]