Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Excelling in Excel

I've been learning lots on Excel formulas lately between a project I'm on and Jim in an Excel-based finance class. I now know how to
  • Paste Special (Values & Formats)
  • Concantenate
  • Change Rows into Columns and vice versa

Now, if I could grasp the concept of Pivot Tables....

10 comments:

Dale said...

Pivot Tables aren't easy to grasp :)

Ask Jim about VLOOKUP, he loved doing those for his last job

Viki said...

I've never had to delve into Pivot Tables.

And what the hell does Concantenate mean?

Finlands finest said...

I took a class in college and learned all about the special functions in Excel. It is actually an impressive program!

Katrin said...

Huh?!

Karen said...

concantenate means to take data from more than one source and combine it. For example if you have a column of first names and a column of last names you can use =CONCANTENATE(A1,B1) to make a column of the names together. If you want to add a space between the names you'd write =CONCANTENATE(A1," ",B1).

:)

LisaMarie said...

You so smart. Me so dumb. :)

Sarah said...

I used to consider myself fairly proficient in Excel... then I read your post and realized I have been living a lie.

Viki said...

Dude - I'm totally using that feature!

Viki said...

Can you do the opposite of concantenating?

Jessica said...

I love pivot tables! I need to use them all the time for reporting at work. Sometimes, they take some playing with though to get it right.