Excel Formulas: Build Random Item Transaction History Data Using the Index Randbetween CountA Formula

Excel Formulas: Build Random Item Transaction History Data Using the Index Randbetween CountA Formula

 

For the past week or two, I have been working on building an online course through Udemy and it has been consuming most of my free time so I haven’t had a whole lot of opportunity to post anything here on my blog.  That being said, I’ve been looking around for ways to generate random logical sample business data to help build up data sets and samples for my course.  As a result, one thing that I’ve started to do is use the Index Randbetween CountA formula to pull data from one table located on a separate tab/worksheet that may hold a smaller set of data that will be required to build a full sample data set. (more…)

Excel Tables: How to Create Built in Summary Formulas

Excel Tables: How to Create Built in Summary Formulas

 A How To Video Tutorial For Using Formulas in Excel Tables

The idea to provide a quick tutorial on how to use summary formulas within Excel Tables came from Joe Stephens.  Joe commented the other day on my blog mentioning that you could use the built in header column/fields names within an Excel table to create summary formulas.  That being said I thought it would be a great idea to give a quick video tutorial on the subject.  As Joe mentioned, this functionality is only available in Excel 2007 or later. Please enjoy the video and feel free to leave a comment with any suggestions or questions! (more…)