Create a Geo Map Chart - Google Sheets

If you've got data to map, you might want to using the geo chart maps in Google Sheets. As long as you have some type of value that can be mapped like city, state or country, you can assign colors or markers to your data on a geographic map. All you need are two columns; one for the locale and the other to represent some quantitative value. The catch is that there are just to geo map options to use in Google sheets. Also you can't map latitude and longitude. However there is a workaround to that which involves some script (don't worry it's a copy/paste) and later on I'll even so you how to incorporate google sheet data with the google maps application.

Use the Excel XLOOKUP Function

The XLOOKUP function is an Office 365 function that is sure to replace the other lookup functions like VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, or HLOOKUP. It's so much more versatile and take the similar argument structure as the other functions and more. You can do various lookup variations like looking up to the left or looking up values from a bottoms up approach...and all this with just one function.

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.

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.

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.

Create a Pivot Table without Using the Pivot Table Feature (SORT & UNIQUE)

Pivot Tables are one of those great data analysis tools. But what if you wanted a simple cross tab (aka pivot table) without using the Pivot Table command in the ribbon. You could have done this before with various combinations of commands and use the CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to create arrays. But in Office 365 there are two dynamic array functions (SORT & UNIQUE) that let you create a cross tab very easily. The UNIQUE function in it self is totally useful and I'll cover it in detail near the end of the vid.

Split Comma Separated Value Ignore Comma In Brackets Excel (2 Excel Exam...

If you've tried to split or separate text string that's delimited by commas ( or semicolons) it's a straight forward process using the text to columns feature. However if you have some values that are enclosed in parenthesis or brackets and you don't want that text to be separated, it wouldn't work. There is a workaround that this video goes through. One is a VBA solutions provided from iliace at the mrexcel forum (https://www.mrexcel.com/board/threads...) and the other is an adjustment to the text with find/replace before using the text to column feature.