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"I hate how useless time management guides are to me." I saw a post with this quote and thought, "hmmm, what guides is this person reading?" Or, is this person reading and not implementing the tactics taught in the guides? For me, this resonates a bit because not only do I, probably like many of you, find myself crazy busy often (especially with everyone working and schooling from home these days), but get caught up in the moment and forget everything I've learned about Time

Did you know that Excel Pivot Tables can do so much more than just show your data and sum or count it? Are you saying, "Debbie, what are slicers?" Let me explain... Slicers were added in Excel 2010 to filter PivotTable data. In Excel 2013 & newer versions, you can now use slicers to filter any table data. Slicers clearly indicate what data is shown in the table after you filter the data. They include buttons so that you can quickly filter data without having to use drop down

I feel like in today's society, we are under more stress than years ago. However, I would say this is all brought upon by our own stressors. There are ways to certainly minimize stress, one of which is time management. So, how can time management reduce stress? Parkinson's law It can often be a time waster. Consider this, if you say you have 1 hour to view social media, then you will spend that entire hour, and possibly more, going down rabbit holes. When you have 2 hours for

I've had many people asking lately to create more Excel courses and particularly about formulas and data. So, I've just uploaded a short tutorial on Trace Dependents. CLICK HERE to watch the video. OR, read on to view the text version. If you have formulas that are based on the contents of another cell, you have dependent cells. The Trace Dependents command is useful to see how other cells are influenced by the active cell’s contents. The Trace Dependents command allows you t