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We’re on our third year with our automated operational reporting, which has been rolled out to both sides of the house. It kind of gives me a secret thrill to think that once a week, everyone comes in to work in the morning, opens up the file and lets the program do its magic. And if they…
I did something I have never seen done before: I created a self-correcting spreadsheet. In the last few weeks I’ve been working on generating a solution to pull together and print out state government regulations, covering certain topics such as minimum wage, meal and rest breaks, overtime, etc. My company probably pays to receive this data from…
So far, on this latest project, I have figured out how to handle varying spelling of state names when a normal VLOOKUP or pivot table won’t do. And I got through the issue of varying row heights in the downloads. The posts can be found below and each contains a copy of the Excel file…
Have you ever tried doing an autofit of a row by placing your mouse to the far left of the file, to the bottom of the row, and right clicking your mouse and nothing happens? It might be because you have merged cells in one of the columns.But sometimes you need those merged cells. For…
Have you ever done a VLOOKUP only to find that the words run into each other, but when you look at the source, the words are beautifully spaced? You end up with something like: “Priced by volume:$100 buy in volume of 200$150 buy in volume of 300$200 buy in volume of 500”? If you look…
Before progressing on to the other puzzles in the HR Compliance reporting that I started in the last post, I wanted to provide another example of using arrays as a searching tool when VLOOKUPs or INDEX/MATCH do not work. The more times you use this kind of array formulas, the easier it is to understand….