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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.
Miles Goodchild
Feb 15, 20221 min read
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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...
Miles Goodchild
Feb 15, 20222 min read
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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...
Miles Goodchild
Dec 6, 20211 min read
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Excel – how to make a drop-down dependent on another drop-down
Sometimes in Excel you want to make a selection dependent on another choice. For instance, you would like to select a country from a...
Miles Goodchild
Nov 9, 20212 min read
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Automatically pulling data from other sheets into a dashboard
Situation A client had a single worksheet per project and wanted to pull data from each sheet into a single dashboard to give a view...
Miles Goodchild
Nov 8, 20212 min read
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10 more hints and tips for MS Project
10 more ways to make MS Project work for you. How to be more efficient and harness the power of MS Project
Miles Goodchild
Jun 14, 20216 min read
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How to produce a personalised week ahead report from MS Project
In this blog you will learn how to filter a project or programme plan to show the tasks ahead which have been assignefd to a specific...
Miles Goodchild
Jun 14, 20215 min read
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Working with Cell Colour, tint and shades in Excel VBA
How to use VBA to get the RGB colour for a cell and then adjust this colour by changing the shade or tint. Then colour another cell.
Miles Goodchld
Jun 8, 20214 min read
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10 tips to be faster using MS Project
Ten easy hints and tips to help you be faster and more efficient when using Microsoft Project.
Miles Goodchld
Mar 24, 20214 min read
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