Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Google Sheets - Track Stocks with GOOGLEFINANCE

If you like to track your stock investments, Google Sheets has a function called GOOGLEFINANCE that helps you get delayed (~20 minute) stock price (or volume) information on numerous stocks in your portfolio. It can event track mutual funds and currency. You also have the option of getting historical information on those various stocks so you can do some anaylsis or comparisons of your portfolio. In this video I'll show you how to use the many ways of GOOGLEFINANCE to get this information and even show you how to create a small in cell chart to visualize the stock prices from 30 days or even 365 days to the current date.

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Convert Numbers to Roman Numerals

Converting numbers to Roman numeral is quite easy with the ROMAN function. But I'll spice this up with some other tricks to get a series of numbers. If you have Office 365, you can use the SEQUENCE function to get a matrix of numbers in a 10x10 grid. If you don't have Microsoft Office 365, I'll so another method to get this matrix. Also if you're interested in how to convert from Roman numerals to number, it's also just as easy with the ARABIC function.

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Lookup Values from Different Workbook with IMPORTRANGE() - Google Sheets

Lookups in Google Sheets are fairly easy with the standard functions like LOOKUP, VLOOKUP or INDEX / MATCH. Within the same worksheet or different worksheet in the same workbook is straight forward. However if your looked up table or range is in a different workbook in Google Sheets, it take an additional function (IMPORTRANGE) to work. It's not so bad, so check out this video to see how it could work.