This is going to be a lifesaver for a lot of people.
In this MVP post, I will show you how to copy any tabulated data from PDF documents to Excel and still retain the tabular form. And this works for scanned documents, ones you can't even copy the text in the PDF.

 So let's start!

 Below is a screenshot of an equivalent of a scanned document containing a company's financial data.

 As you can see below, it's not even possible to copy the texts in the PDF document. If I try to select anything, it simply highlights a rectangular portion of the doc.
So how do I copy the table?
Easy, just follow these steps.

 Do you work with lots of data, track KPIs, make sales projections, make Excel based reports, do business data Analysis and make data-centric PowerPoint presentations?

 I have a training package customized just for you. It is for Excel power users who want to do the nearly impossible, become a demi-god at work and automate reports.

 If you're interested you can call me on 08089382423 or email mike(at)urbizedge.com or Hannah on 08021180874, hannah(at)urbizedge.com.

 The package covers the following modules:

 1) Data Manipulation in Excel
a. How Excel handles different data types
b. Data consistency, starting with the end in view
c. Building Datasheets that can easily scale
d. Advanced Sorting
i. Cascaded sorting
ii. Sorting across rows (left to right sorting, not the usual up to down sorting)
iii. Sorting and Conditional Formatting to identify trends
e. Advanced Filtering
f. Data cleaning 
i. Removing duplicates
ii. Text-to-column
iii. Grouping
iv. Data Validation
v. Conditional Formatting
g. Data formatting 
i. Using Tables (and when to convert to tables)
ii. Formatting for printing
iii. Formatting for email
iv. Data Review and formatting for 3rd party use
h. Named Ranges


2) Charts
a. All the different Chart types 
i. Line chart and when to use it
ii. Column chart and when to use it
iii. Bar chart and when to use it
iv. Pie chart and it’s dangers
b. Combining charts; when and how.
c. Dynamic Charts, using filter.
d. Best practices when making charts
e. Sparklines 
3) Pivot Table, Pivot Chart and PowerPivot
a. Pivot Table
i. Default Pivot Table
ii. Tabular Pivot Table
iii. Pivot Table Filtering
iv. Making a very dynamic regular table from Pivot Table
v. Calculations and Formula use with Pivot Table
vi. Advanced Pivot Table tricks
b. Pivot Chart
i. Pivot Chart and its limitations
ii. Dynamic Pivot Charts
c. PowerPivot (for Excel 2010 and 2013) only
4) Business Data Analysis
a. Linking sheets 
b. Duplicating sheets (better than copy and paste)
c. Inserting sheets, labeling and coloring the professional way
d. Freezing Panes and splitting windows
e. Conditional formatting 
i. To identify patterns
ii. Using formulae
iii. To make extremely intelligent reports
f. Lookup functions
i. Vlookup 
ii. Hlookup
iii. Looking up the last data or pattern in a particular row or column 
iv. Overcoming the limitations of Vlookup and Hlookup using index and match functions
g. Power Functions
i. IF, IFERROR, AND, OR, ISBLANK, and others in the same family
ii. TEXT manipulative functions to make a completely automated Dashboard
iii. COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS and others, to make dynamic summary tables
iv. MATCH and INDEX to do the impossible
h. Other Functions
i. Math Functions
ii. Text Functions
iii. Logical
iv. Others
i. Formula Auditing 
5) Reporting
a. Best Practices
b. Benefit of a secret Almighty sheet 
c. What to share and what to keep
d. Having the audience/recipient in mind
e. E-mails and Excel reports

 6) Excel to PowerPoint 
a. Linking PowerPoint Charts to Excel
b. Embedding Excel sheets in PowerPoint
c. Making a Powerful PowerPoint Presentation
7) Excel VBA 
a. Introduction to VBA
b. Recording Macros and it's limitations
c. Writing your own Macro
d. When to use a Macro and the implications
e. Hands-on, doing the impossible with Macros

 If you're interested you can call me on 08089382423 or email mike(at)urbizedge.com or Hannah on 08021180874, hannah(at)urbizedge.com.

Act now and don't delay!

 For reviews/feedback from the people who have made use of this special opportunity click here: Reviews. And scroll down to view the many comments people gave after going through the special training. 

There have been times I needed to transpose a table and through experience I have discovered two ways - the easy way, using copy paste special transpose, and the sure way, using formula.

 In this post I will show you both ways.

 As usual, I have generated a sample data. Shown below.
Now let's transpose this table.
Hi there!
This is a very special how-to, you don't get to see this just anywhere. In fact, lots of people aren't aware that this feature exists in Excel. Yet it can make your spreadsheet life a lot easier.

 Just imagine you have a sales report to work on, having the sales persons in column A, the months in row 1 and the sales figure in the other cells. And then you discover that the months are not arranged in the proper order, February is not beside March and July is right next to January. How do you fix that? Your regular sort won't do it. You need something less used, a secret Excel tool called custom sort.

 Here is a sample data to better illustrate.
The data above is an Excel Table. And needs to be converted first to regular cell entries. But lets play ignorant and see what will happen.

Hello there!
Welcome to my 12th post in the MVP series, and today I'm going to show you how to highlight duplicate entries in a Microsoft Excel table and delete the duplicates (leaving only unique entries).

 So, let's start.

 I have put together a sample table for this demonstration.

You will notice that several companies are repeated. 
How about I show you how to highlight all the companies occurring more than once in the list? Here's how.
What's the use of a postpaid line if you still have to go queue at an Airtel customer service center just so you can pay your bill? Well, you can guess the answer.
For the first 3 months of using my Airtel postpaid line, I was the biggest mumu in Lagos. I would take a bike in expensive VI to go queue at an Airtel customer service center to pay my Airtel postpaid bill. And on those days, I always end up spending the entire afternoon there. I won't forget one particular day, I got there and the crowd was just too much. I didn't want to waste the money I paid the bike man, so I waited and waited. It became very ridiculous, it was obvious that it would be at close of work before it would get to my turn. I left. And came back. 

 Now I don wise up like Saka, I now pay online with super ease. No traveling to customer centre, no queuing and no ruined day.

 And in this post I will show how I do that.
I remember the first DSTV re-subscription payment I made. The first subscription had come with the initial installation and set-up. It would be 30 days the next day and my subscription was going to expire. Immediately it was 12noon, I rushed my lunch and took a motorbike from Adeola Odeku to Tiamiyu Salvage just to pay my DSTV subscription. And when I saw the crowd outside, and the one inside too, I told myself, "This is it, I had better call Sam and tell him to shutdown my PC when he's leaving. This must be my next stop to home".
Now I pay my DSTV subscription online in 4mins via Quickteller.
And in this post, I will show you with elaborate steps and screenshots how to do it too.

 These are all you'll need -

  • Your DSTV smartcard number
  • The Owner's name (one used to purchase the DSTV)
  • And an internet connection on a PC. Don't attempt to use your Blackberry.
Let's begin.
Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

vtiger CRM is very easy to use and very robust. You can read my previous post on how amazing vtiger CRM is.

However, in this post I'll be sharing with you the steps to deleting a vtiger user and transferring ownership of his resources to another user.


So login to the vtiger CRM.
You'll be taken straight to the Home page. Look to the upper right, to the symbol right next to your name, place your mouse on it and CRM Settings will show. Click on it.
Hi there!

In this post I'll be sharing with you two amazing slides that reveal the secret behind Dropbox's success. I'll advise you get a note and a pen 'cos these are life lessons you are about to learn.

Here we go!





 Hi there!
I've got some good news to share. I recently got several English Grammar books, I'm working on brightening my grammar. I'm finally biting the bullet and admitting that my grammar needs fixing.

 For about 2 years now, I always cringe at the thought of reading my previous posts especially the ones I wrote at the start of my blogging pseudo-career. The grammatical blunders I come across in them are mood wrecking and make me want to quit blogging altogether. Then I console myself by reading other Nigerian blogs, rather than take time out to weed out the grammatical errors in all my previous posts. 
But something happened over this past weekend, I went for Lighthouse Toastmasters club meeting and met this amazing child, she is probably 8 years old but her English is too good. Not that she used big words or couldn't stop talking, she used simple words beautifully well and with a grammatical perfection I could only dream of. Her speech sounded like music to me, and when she spoke I gave her rapt attention and wished she would just go on and not stop. I kept thinking about how an 8 year old girl could acquire such fluency in English, must be the school. And since it's too late for me to go back to Primary school, I'll have to teach my self with the same dedication I used to acquire all my IT certifications and programming skills. So I went on Amazon kindle store and bought some free books. I saw the amazing reviews on the Grammar Girl's series and bought the audiobook version on Audible.com

 So now I'm brightening my grammar and soon you'll begin to notice the improvements I'm making in my subsequent posts.
Do you have any extra tip on how to brighten my grammar? Please share via the comment-box below.
I'm sharing with you the presentation by the founder of LinkedIn, the world's biggest in its niche. This is the most inspiring presentation I have ever come across.
Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.


 This is not a regular post, it's a life saver for anyone who encounters the same problem I encountered on my smf forum.

 I recently started a forum, www.nigerianelite.com a few months ago and installed all the mods I thought would be extremely useful -
Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Welcome to my Nigerian Stock Exchange series!
To view the reports of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment analysis reports, click NSE series.

Hello there!
In this Excel MVP post I will show you the cool use of conditional formatting to show instant data insight.

 So let's use a fictitious data.
Company XYZ sells 4 products and have independent sales people working across the country. The company gives sales target to them and for the last evaluation period, a target of 700 sales per product was given. 
Below is the table of the sales achieved by the sales team, by person and by product.

So, how do you highlight the sales that met the target?
That's what conditional formatting does, and with easy and beauty.

Hi.
In this post I'll share with you the list (+ screenshots) of the websites I visit nearly daily.

 1. Blogger

 Yeah, blogger, my blog's platform. I go there daily to view my yesterday's page views, make new posts and edit my blog layout.
I recently created a new website, a forum hosted by siteground.com It cost me over 4 times the cost of running this blog (on Blogger) and since I use a bandwidth sharing option, the website often becomes unreachable when traffic surges. Now I know the value of running a blog on Blogger, availability is almost 100% for a cheap fee of $10 yearly. 

There has been so much confusion regarding the data allowance on Etisalat BIS plans, some people claim it is unlimited, some say its 1GB  and others, 3GB.

 Well, here is the truth and can be verified from Etisalat's official site. Nunmber 31.
S/N TIME DATA ALLOWANCE
1 Daily 50MB
2 Weekly 500MB
3 Monthly 3GB



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