Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

re: Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

Annik Stahl — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:04:49 GMT

@kss91 I'm sure it IS possible but here, in this blog format, is not the place to figure it out. My suggestion to you is that you pose your question at Microsoft Answers (answers.microsoft.com/.../default.aspx) which is a free online discussion group. It's patrolled by experts such as our MVPs (Most Valuable Processionals - experts but not MS employees), some MS employees, and other real "power users." I've never asked a question there that hasn't received an answer.

So: Go to Microsoft Answers, drill down to the application you're needing to ask the question about, and then find the appropriate category. Search for what you think is similar to your problem, and if you don't find any other questions like it, go ahead and ask a question yourself. (Be sure to select the box that indicates you want to be notified by email when someone has responded to your post).

Also: Ask your question of any of our Excel MVPs: mvp.support.microsoft.com/.../mvp.aspx

re: Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

kss91 — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:01 GMT

Crabby...can you please help me? I want to create an excel spreadsheet that helps me manage talent progress in my organization. I need to list employees by department, and then have the dept. heads identify each ee's readiness for the next step (Ready Now, Ready in 1 year, etc.) What I'd like to do is have them enter a value (perhaps "x") in the column, have that column change colors to visually indicate readiness, and then have the employee's data roll up to a separate spreadsheet for each readiness level. Ultimately, all Ready Now, Ready in 1 year employees will be presented to our Exec team, so if we can accomplish this, each department's readiness levels should be easy to extract and my HR Coordinator will be able to keep her hair...Is this possible?

re: Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

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re: Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

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re: Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

sublimation ink — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:22:18 GMT

re: Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

sublimation ink — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:21:28 GMT

Hrmm that was weird, my comment got eaten. Anyway I wanted to say that it's nice to know that someone else also mentioned this as I had trouble finding this same info elsewhere. This was this first place that told me this answer. Thanks.

re: Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

Annik Stahl — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:49:22 GMT

I want to thanks all of you who've written to me at MSFTCrabby@hotmail.com to say that you enjoy my columns (and also call out the "Find of the day" items at the end of each post). It means a ot to know someone is out there reading and *getting* my message.

I'll have a post for this Friday, the 24th (PowerPoint), one for Monday (shortcuts and tricks to figuring out the ribbon), and then on Wednesday I’ll do my yearly (my 9th one and still, ONE resolution has yet to be...resolved). And finally, on Weds., December 31st, I’ll do a yearly wrap up that will be about whatever I’ve been thinking/hearing/writing/musing about—not all Office/Microsoft or even techie stuff—but certainly not political stuff because I value my job and anyway, my job isn’t about expressing my views about that one way or another…. We’re all equal (and connected), in Office’s World…

I hope all of you HAD a Happy Hanukkah, and that your Christmas is merry and bright, and your New Year full of blessings, happiness, good health...with just a soupçon of crabbiness (a little spice never hurt anyone).

Fondly,

— Crabby

re: My favorites in Excel 2010: Crabby's Daily Tip

Annik Stahl — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:28:45 GMT

Ok <whew> - I really do love these features; I didn't want them left out in the rain (like I'm about to go into...it's pouring here!!!)

Thanks for your patience, readers. Have a great weekend.

re: My favorites in Excel 2010: Crabby's Daily Tip

Annik Stahl — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:02:02 GMT

Well...I'm glad to see my readerse have a sense of humor!

Sorry gang -- I'm writing now (while eating breakfast and shuffling the kid off to school...) Crabby never rests!

re: My favorites in Excel 2010: Crabby's Daily Tip

Kimberly — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:35:04 GMT

Content......a real eye opener thank you for this ^.^