Excel Hacks 2nd edition (covers Excel 2007)

Credits
Preface

1. Reducing Workbook and Worksheet Frustration
1. Create a Personal View of Your Workbooks
2. Enter Data into Multiple Worksheets Simultaneously
3. Prevent Users from Performing Certain Actions
4. Prevent Seemingly Unnecessary Prompts
5. Hide Worksheets So That They Cannot Be Unhidden
6. Customize the Templates Dialog and Default Workbook
7. Create an Index of Sheets in Your Workbook
8. Limit the Scrolling Range of Your Worksheet
9. Lock and Protect Cells Containing Formulas
10. Find Duplicate Data Using Conditional Formatting
11. Find Data That Appears Two or More Times Using Conditional Formatting
12. Tie Custom Toolbars to a Particular Workbook
13. Outsmart Excel's Relative Reference Handler
14. Remove Phantom Workbook Links
15. Reduce Workbook Bloat
16. Extract Data from a Corrupt Workbook

2. Hacking Excel's Built-in Features
17. Validate Data Based on a List on Another Worksheet
18. Control Conditional Formatting with Checkboxes
19. Identify Formulas with Conditional Formatting
20. Count or Sum Cells That Meet Conditional Formatting Criteria
21. Highlight Every Other Row or Column
22. Create 3-D Effects in Tables or Cells
23. Turn Conditional Formatting and Data Validation On and Off with a
Checkbox
24. Support Multiple Lists in a ComboBox
25. Create Validation Lists That Change Based on a Selection from Another List
26. Use Replace... to Remove Unwanted Characters
27. Convert Text Numbers to Real Numbers
28. Extract the Numeric Portion of a Cell Entry
29. Customize Cell Comments
30. Sort by More Than Three Columns
31. Random Sorting
32. Manipulate Data with the Advanced Filter
33. Create Custom Number Formats
34. Add More Levels of Undo to Excel for Windows
35. Create Custom Lists
36. Boldface Excel Subtotals
37. Convert Excel Formulas and Functions to Values
38. Automatically Add Data to a Validation List
39. Hack Excel's Date and Time Features
40. Enable Grouping and Outlining on a Protected Worksheet
41. Prevent Blanks/Missing Fields in a Table
42. Provide Decreasing Data Validation Lists
43. Add a Custom List to the Fill Handle

3. Naming Hacks
44. Address Data by Name
45. Use the Same Name for Ranges on Different Worksheets
46. Create Custom Functions Using Names
47. Create Ranges That Expand and Contract
48. Nest Dynamic Ranges for Maximum Flexibility
49. Identify Named Ranges on a Worksheet

4. Hacking PivotTables
50. PivotTables: A Hack in Themselves
51. Share PivotTables but Not Their Data
52. Automate PivotTable Creation
53. Move PivotTable Grand Totals
54. Efficiently Pivot Another Workbook's Data

5. Charting Hacks
55. Explode a Single Slice from a Pie Chart
56. Create Two Sets of Slices in One Pie Chart
57. Create Charts That Adjust to Data
58. Interact with Your Charts Using Custom Controls
59. Four Quick Ways to Update Your Charts
60. Hack Together a Simple Thermometer Chart
61. Create a Column Chart with Variable Widths and Heights
62. Create a Speedometer Chart
63. Link Chart Text Elements to a Cell
64. Hack Chart Data So That Empty or FALSE Formula Cells Are Not Plotted
65. Add a Directional Arrow to the End of a Line Series
66. Place an Arrow on the End of a Horizontal (X) Axis
67. Correct Narrow Columns When Using Dates
68. Position Axis Labels
69. Tornado Chart
70. Gauge Chart
71. Conditional Highlighting Axis Labels
72. Create Totals on a Stacked Column Chart

6. Hacking Formulas and Functions
73. Add Descriptive Text to Your Formulas
74. Move Relative Formulas Without Changing References
75. Compare Two Excel Ranges
76. Fill All Blank Cells in a List
77. Make Your Formulas Increment by Rows When You Copy Across Columns
78. Convert Dates to Excel Formatted Dates
79. Sum or Count Cells While Avoiding Error Values
80. Reduce the Impact of Volatile Functions on Recalculation
81. Count Only One Instance of Each Entry in a List
82. Sum Every Second, Third, or Nth Row or Cell
83. Find the Nth Occurrence of a Value
84. Make the Excel Subtotal Function Dynamic
85. Add Date Extensions
86. Convert Numbers with the Negative Sign on the Right to Excel Numbers
87. Display Negative Time Values
88. Use the VLOOKUP Function Across Multiple Tables
89. Show Total Time As Days, Hours, and Minutes
90. Determine the Number of Specified Days in Any Month
91. Construct Mega-Formulas
92. Hack Mega-Formulas that Reference Other Workbooks
93. Hack One of Excel's Database Functions to Take the Place of Many
Functions
94. Extract Specified Words from a Text String
95. Count Words in a Cell or Range of Cells
96. Return a Worksheet Name to a Cell
97. Sum Cells with Multiple Criteria
98. Count Cells with Multiple Criteria
99. Calculate a Sliding Tax Scale
100. Add/Subtract Months from a Date
101. Find the Last Day of Any Given Month
102. Calculate a Person's Age
103. Return the Weekday of a Date
104. Evaluate a Text Equation
105. Lookup from Within a Cell

7. Macro Hacks
106. Speed Up Code While Halting Screen Flicker
107. Run a Macro at a Set Time
108. Use CodeNames to Reference Sheets in Excel Workbooks
109. Connect Buttons to Macros Easily
110. Create a Workbook Splash Screen
111. Display a "Please Wait" Message
112. Have a Cell Ticked or Unticked upon Selection
113. Count or Sum Cells That Have a Specified Fill Color
114. Add the Microsoft Excel Calendar Control to Any Excel Workbook
115. Password-Protect and Unprotect All Excel Worksheets in One Fell Swoop
116. Retrieve a Workbook's Name and Path
117. Get Around Excel's Three-Criteria Limit for Conditional Formatting
118. Run Procedures on Protected Worksheets
119. Distribute Macros
120. Delete Rows Based on a Condition
121. Track and Report Changes in Excel
122. Automatically Add Date/Time to a Cell upon Entry
123. Create a List of Workbook Hyperlinks
124. Advanced Find
125. Find a Number Between Two Numbers
126. Convert Formula References from Relative to Absolute
127. Name a Workbook with the Text in a Cell
128. Hide and Restore Toolbars in Excel
129. Sort Worksheets
130. Password-Protect a Worksheet from Viewing
131. Change Text to Upper- or Proper Case
132. Force Text to Upper- or Proper Case
133. Prevent Case Sensitivity in VBA Code
134. Display AutoFilter Criteria

8. Cross-Application Hacks
135. Import Data from Access 2007 into Excel 2007
136. Retrieve Data from Closed Workbooks
137. Automate Word from Excel
138. Automate Outlook from Excel

Index