Chapter 1 Reducing Workbook and Worksheet Frustration

1. Hacks #1-15

2. Create a Personal View of Your Workbooks

3. Enter Data into Multiple Worksheets Simultaneously

4. Prevent Users from Performing Certain Actions

5. Prevent Seemingly Unnecessary Prompts

6. Hide Worksheets So That They Cannot Be Unhidden

7. Customize the Templates Dialog and Default Workbook

8. Create an Index of Sheets in Your Workbook

9. Limit the Scrolling Range of Your Worksheet

10. Lock and Protect Cells Containing Formulas

11. Find Duplicate Data 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

Chapter 2 Hacking Excel's Built-in Features

1. Hacks #16-38

2. Validate Data Based on a List on Another Worksheet

3. Control Conditional Formatting with Checkboxes

4. Identify Formulas with Conditional Formatting

5. Count or Sum Cells That Meet Conditional Formatting Criteria

6. Highlight Every Other Row or Column

7. Create 3D Effects in Tables or Cells

8. Turn Conditional Formatting and Data Validation On and Off with a Checkbox

9. Support Multiple Lists in a ComboBox

10. Create Validation Lists That Change Based on a Selection from Another List

11. Force Data Validation to Reference a List on Another Worksheet

12. Use Replace... to Remove Unwanted Characters

13. Convert Text Numbers to Real Numbers

14. Customize Cell Comments

15. Sort by More Than Three Columns

16. Random Sorting

17. Manipulate Data with the Advanced Filter

18. Create Custom Number Formats

19. Add More Levels of Undo to Excel for Windows

20. Create Custom Lists

21. Boldface Excel Subtotals

22. Convert Excel Formulas and Functions to Values

23. Automatically Add Data to a Validation List

24. Hack Excel's Date and Time Features

Chapter 3 Naming Hacks

1. Hacks #39-44

2. Address Data by Name

3. Use the Same Name for Ranges on Different Worksheets

4. Create Custom Functions Using Names

5. Create Ranges That Expand and Contract

6. Nest Dynamic Ranges for Maximum Flexibility

7. Identify Named Ranges on a Worksheet

Chapter 4 Hacking PivotTables

1. Hacks #46-49

2. PivotTables: A Hack in Themselves

3. Share PivotTables but Not Their Data

4. Automate PivotTable Creation

5. Move PivotTable Grand Totals

6. Efficiently Pivot Another Workbook's Data

Chapter 5 Charting Hacks

1. Hacks #50-59

2. Explode a Single Slice from a Pie Chart

3. Create Two Sets of Slices in One Pie Chart

4. Create Charts That Adjust to Data

5. Interact with Your Charts Using Custom Controls

6. Three Quick Ways to Update Your Charts

7. Hack Together a Simple Thermometer Chart

8. Create a Column Chart with Variable Widths and Heights

9. Create a Speedometer Chart

10. Link Chart Text Elements to a Cell

11. Hack Chart Data So That Blank Cells Are Not Plotted

Chapter 6 Hacking Formulas and Functions

1. Hacks #60-80

2. Add Descriptive Text to Your Formulas

3. Move Relative Formulas Without Changing References

4. Compare Two Excel Ranges

5. Fill All Blank Cells in a List

6. Make Your Formulas Increment by Rows When You Copy Across Columns

7. Convert Dates to Excel Formatted Dates

8. Sum or Counting Cells While Avoiding Error Values

9. Reduce the Impact of Volatile Functions on Recalculation

10. Count Only One Instance of Each Entry in a List

11. Sum Every Second, Third, or nth Row or Cell

12. Find the nth Occurrence of a Value

13. Make the Excel Subtotal Function Dynamic

14. Add Date Extensions

15. Convert Numbers with the Negative Sign on the Right to Excel Numbers

16. Display Negative Time Values

17. Use the VLOOKUP Function Across Multiple Tables

18. Show Total Time as Days, Hours, and Minutes

19. Determine the Number of Specified Days in Any Month

20. Construct Mega-Formulas

21. Hack Mega-Formulas that Reference Other Workbooks

22. Hack One of Excel's Database Functions to Take the Place of Many Functions

Chapter 7 Macro Hacks

1. Hacks #81-94

2. Speed Up Code While Halting Screen Flicker

3. Run a Macro at a Set Time

4. Use CodeName to Reference Sheets in Excel Workbooks

5. Connect Buttons to Macros Easily

6. Create a Workbook Splash Screen

7. Display a "Please Wait" Message

8. Have a Cell Ticked or Unticked upon Selection

9. Count or Sum Cells That Have a Specified Fill Color

10. Add the Microsoft Excel Calendar Control to Any Excel Workbook

11. Password-Protect and Unprotect All Excel Worksheets in One Fell Swoop

12. Retrieve a Workbook's Name and Path

13. Get Around Excel's Three-Criteria Limit for Conditional Formatting

14. Run Procedures on Protected Worksheets

15. Distribute Macros

Chapter 8 Connecting Excel to the World

1. Hacks #95-100

2. Load an XML Document into Excel

3. Save to SpreadsheetML and Extracting Data

4. Create Spreadsheets using SpreadsheetML

5. Import Data Directly into Excel

6. Access SOAP Web Services from Excel

7. Create Excel Spreadsheets Using Other Environments

Chapter 9 Glossary