Day 2 of Excel Ignited and SSSVEDA: Overview of the Excel Ribbon.

Here I cover each of the main tabs, showing the most important features that an Excel beginner should know, and I point out features that are more advanced or specialized.

The video includes brief demos of key Excel features, including: conditional formatting, sort, filter, Find/Replace, and number formatting.

Chris Macro’s survey of how professionals use Excel’s Quick Access Toolbar:

VIDEO TIMELINE
2:35 Opening Excel
4:00 Pinning a working to the Recent menu
5:01 Changing the Office Theme to black
6:00 The Home tab
6:10 Format Painter
7:08 Change font
7:44 Cell Borders
8:07 Cell Alignment
8:25 Wrap Text
8:50 Number Formats
9:30 Conditional Formatting
10:44 Format as Table
12:18 Insert Row/Column
12:49 Find and Replace
13:54 The Insert Tab
13:59 Pivot Table
14:50 Insert Shapes
15:13 Insert Charts
15:28 Slicers
16:00 Text Box, Word Art
16:45 The Draw Tab
17:08 The Page Layout Tab
17:14 Margins, Orientation
17:38 Scale to Fit (controlling how many pages a worksheet prints out on)
18:37 Turn off grid lines
18:49 Aligning objects
20:00 The Formulas Tab
20:45 Formula Evaluator
21:03 The Data Tab
21:03 Get & Transform
21:34 Sort, Filter
25:22 Text-to-Columns
25:43 Flash Fill
26:45 Data Validation: Drop Down Lists and other ways to prevent input of bizarre data
28:26 The Review Tab
28:26 Sheet and Workbook Protection
29:06 The View Tab
29:06 Show or hide: Page breaks, Page Layout, Formula Bar, Headers
29:30 Freeze Panes
29:44 The Developer Tab
29:44 VBA window and Form Controls
30:26 The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
31:40 Chris Macro’s QAT Survey
31:52 Closing Summary

My book: Guerrilla Data Analysis 2nd Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Analysis-Using-Microsoft-Excel/dp/1615470336
My blog: http://datascopic.net/blog-2-2

“What is Excel?”
I’ve been asked this over the years by people who are curious about Excel or want some insight into what Excel can do.

Answering the question is difficult because of the endless ways that people have used Excel to serve their needs.

In this video I answer “What is Excel?” several ways, in summary:
– Excel is a development platform for managing data
– Excel is the second best software for ANY purpose
– Excel is just a tool that serves a purpose.

This video is Day 1 of 31 days of videos as part of #SSSVEDA: Vlog Every Day in August (VEDA). The SSS part is Amy Schmittawer’s SavvySexySocial

My book: Guerrilla Data Analysis 2nd Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Analysis-Using-Microsoft-Excel/dp/1615470336
My blog: http://datascopic.net/blog-2-2

Excel’s PowerQuery (Get & Transform) forces the user to think in terms of full column, full rows, full datasets. This creates a problem:

What if you need to shift a column up by just 1 cell? That’s easy in native Excel. In PowerQuery this takes several steps.

In this example, artists aren’t matched with the right songs. To get them matched properly in PowerQuery, I show:
Index Column
Modulo
Conditional Columns
Fill Up

Check it out!

Download the sample workbook:

My book: Guerrilla Data Analysis 2nd Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Analysis-Using-Microsoft-Excel/dp/1615470336
My blog: http://datascopic.net/blog2-2

This video is in response to a question about a previous video where I showed how to unwind some data. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlEp9IXdaoI)
Delta Sport asked about going in the opposite direction: starting with the unwound data, wind it back up again.

This is challenging. It calls for multiple steps in both native Excel and Power Query. Excel Features you’ll see:

Pivot (in Power Query)
TEXTJOIN
Don’t Aggregate
Merge Columns
Add Custom Column
Index Column

My book: Guerrilla Data Analysis 2nd Edition

My blog: http://datascopic.net/blog2-2