Author Archives: Tom Urtis

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Getting Unique Items From a List

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Getting Unique Items From a List In the following picture, you see a list of names, many of which are repeated 2, 3, or more times. Here’s how you can create a shorter list to show … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: What time is it *Really*? Ask the US Navy With a Web Query

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: What time is it *Really*? Ask the US Navy With a Web Query What is today’s date, and what is the current time of day? Here, you create a Web query to import a display of … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Locating Your PivotTable’s Occupied Range

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Locating Your PivotTable’s Occupied Range Here’s a macro to locate the first and last rows and columns, and the ranges being occupied by your pivottable. The (0, 0) notation after the Address property statements is to … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel Videos: Explaining Array Formulas

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel Videos: Explaining Array Formulas Here’s a video explaining what array formulas are, how to enter them, and a look behind the scenes to show how and why they work. Array formulas are a different animal, requiring … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tips For Excel: Using an InputBox and Looping Dates for Copy and Sum

Tom’s Tips For Excel: Using an InputBox and Looping Dates for Copy and Sum In January I posted this example for using AutoFilter for dates. AutoFilter is usually quicker and more efficient but I wanted to show how an example … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Toggling the GETPIVOTDATA Function On and Off

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Toggling the GETPIVOTDATA Function On and Off When you are doing calculations in cells outside of a pivot table that involve cells inside of (that is, belonging to) a pivot table, sometimes you want just the … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Event Code for Embedded Forms Controls

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Event Code for Embedded Forms Controls Commonly accepted wisdom has it that embedded controls from the Forms toolbar cannot be programmed for events, such as can be done for ActiveX controls. Here’s an example of a … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tips For Excel Videos: Filling Empty Cells With Value From Above

Tom’s Tips For Excel Videos: Filling Empty Cells With Value From Above Sometimes you get data in a column which has a lot of blank cells that represent whatever text was in the last filled cell above them. When you … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Filtering Automatically On Cell Entry

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Filtering Automatically On Cell Entry Here’s a developer’s approach to make things easy for your users who need to filter a range of data, based on a value they enter in a criteria cell. A Worksheet_Change … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Why Reset ScreenUpdating to True? Here’s Why!

Why Reset ScreenUpdating to True? Here’s Why! Occasionally a parroted claim will pop up in the Excel cybersphere that resetting ScreenUpdating from False back to True in a VBA procedure is pointless and unnecessary. Supporters of this claim mistakenly believe … Continue reading

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