Saturday, March 08, 2008
Testing a String for Proper Case
Have you ever needed to check a string in a worksheet cell to see if it is in proper case? By "proper case" I mean that the first letter of each word in the string is capitalized and the other characters are lowercase. For example, you may have a list of people’s names (maybe for a mailing list) and you need to be sure that the names are written properly (e.g., John Smith, not john Smith or John sMith). It seems that this should be easy in Excel, but it isn’t obvious (at least there is no easy, built-in function that you can use to validate the string). In this post I will demonstrate three
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Adding an Average Line to a Chart Using Defined Names
Please Note: This technique appears not to work in Excel 2007 (SP 1). For some reason, not explained by Microsoft as far as I can tell, some (but not all) named ranges are no longer allowed in the Series() function. This appears to be yet another problem with the new charting engine. So, this post only applies to Excel 2003 and earlier versions.
I was perusing Yahoo! Answers looking for interesting questions and I ran across one that asked how you can add an line that represents the average of a data series to a chart of that series. The most obvious way to do this would be to use a
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