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Free Excel Project Task status tracker template with RAG

How to create a Project task tracker which shows status in Red, Amber, Green and additional colors, that is handy to track status and to report status

Dec. 30, 2021 • Pranab Bala

An obvious expectation from a decent Task tracker or Project tracker is to have a visual of tasks that needs attention. This could be the tasks ...


Excel pop-up box using VBA macro - Add texts with date for status

Excel VBA macro to update Task tracking for progress comments and remarks with Date in pop-up box

Jan. 29, 2021 • Pranab Bala

One of the very frequent use of excel is tracking progress on plan or tasks. Sometimes, it becomes tedious to keep on adding date and followed b...


How to use advanced filter in excel

Let us demistify Excel Advance Filter and learn how to apply criteria in advanced filter. You should be able to apply fairly complex criteria to Excel Advanced Filter in 15 minutes. Once created, same criteria can be reused on similar data

Feb. 1, 2020 • Pranab Bala

Advanced Filter in excel is applied onto some data in excel sheet. Criteria or filtering conditions are applied on the data. We need to unde...


gantt chart in google sheets and template

Want to Learn How to Make a Gantt Chart in google sheets? You will find how to do it quickly in google sheets with conditional formatting. You will also get a template in this article.

Oct. 19, 2019 • Pranab Bala

Designed more than century ago, Gantt chart is very popular to the Project Manager communities and decision makers. This is equally important to...


Excel Advanced Filter or AutoFilter

Should I use Advanced Filter in Excel or should I use Auto Filter? Is there any advantage using Advanced Filter? Is it really hard to Learn remember? Let's find it out

Sept. 14, 2019 • Pranab Bala

Filters in Excel is an amazing feature. I almost cannot recall a time when I have opened an Excel workbook and have not applied a filter. For me...


Open csv in excel - Date format issue

Frustrated with incorrect dates while opening csv file in excel? This is very common. But you can also overcome easily in different ways

Aug. 17, 2019 • Pranab Bala

You may jump to : Why excel do not recognize all the dates in CSV: How do I understand if excel could open my csv? Understand Date Loca...


Excel Pivot - Multiple summarization of Fields

Pivot tables allows summarization of multiple data Fields or summarization of same data Field multiple times with different perspectives

Aug. 3, 2019 • Pranab Bala

Often we come across with situations, where the data we summarize in Pivot table do not give the right picture or not giving all the necessary p...


Trace a duplicate row in another sheet

Find duplicate rows in another sheet, no matter, if that was moved up or down or sorted

May 4, 2019 • Pranab Bala

Many times you are in a situation that you have worked on a excel did changed couple of cells, sorted the data based on the some or the other co...


Find duplicates in excel

Duplicate sheets, duplicate rows or duplicates in some selective columns? lets explore

April 20, 2019 • Pranab Bala

While working with excel, I believe, everyone faces this situation sometime or other. How to figure out duplicates? There could be different dim...