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Miles Goodchild
Apr 12, 20222 min read
How to constrain a meeting task to a specific day of the week.
Sometimes you will want to constrain a specific meeting to a given day of the week. At one client, there was an “Infrastructure change...
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Miles Goodchild
Apr 11, 20223 min read
How to find out what is driving a task in MS Project
How to identify what is driving a task to the current date in your MS Project plan. Three methods build into MS Project
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Miles Goodchild
Mar 30, 20222 min read
How to show progress on milestone only summary tasks
A workaround for the fact that MS Project only displays 0% or 100% for summaries that contain only milestones.
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Miles Goodchild
Mar 9, 20222 min read
Using VLOOKUP on multiple items and how to split text strings
How to apply VLOOKUP to many cells and add the results. How to split text cells into columns
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Miles Goodchild
Feb 15, 20221 min read
Use Excel custom formats to show emoji and text
How to use Custom Formats to change the colour of the cell, display an emoji or add text depending on the cell's contents.
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Miles Goodchild
Feb 15, 20222 min read
The 56 standard colours in Excel - the ColorIndex values or pallet
Whilst you can use conditional formatting and cell fill etc. to give you almost any colour in excel there is a "special" set of 56...
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Miles Goodchild
Dec 6, 20211 min read
How to display a cell’s colour in Excel
It is not possible to directly access the colour of a cell in an Excel worksheet. Thus you can not write an expression such as “if the...
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Miles Goodchild
Dec 5, 20212 min read
An easy way to make fully dynamic related drop-down boxes
In previous blog posts, we have seen how to make drop-down boxes driven by the entries in other cells and drop-down boxes. In this blog,...
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Miles Goodchild
Nov 16, 20212 min read
How to produce a list of weekdays
How to display only weekdays in excel - three simple methods.
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