Excel Hints Contest Has Concluded
As of 12:00pm EST, the first Excel Hints contest is now history. I will be announcing the winners and contacting them by email tonight (12/1/08).
I’d like to thank everyone who participated by either subscribing to Excel Hints or writing a post about the contest. Hopefully you continue to find the posts here at Excel Hints helpful and welcome.
A special thanks again to our contest sponsors, XLAutomation & ExcelConsultant.net. Please take an moment to check out their site and services, they both do great work.
With all the success of this contest, Excel Hints will definitely be holding more contests in the future to encourage participation with the site.
- John
Only 1 Week Left: $1400 of Prizes
THIS CONTEST CONCLUDED 11/30/2008. Thanks to everyone for entering.
Don’t worry… There’s still time to enter for chances to win some of the $1400 in prizes (including Excel Consulting, Office 2007, an iPod Shuffle and Cash). Sign up for our email feed or write a post about the contest. It’s that easy. Click Here for full contest details.
The contest has been a great success so far. Here’s some details of the participation:
- Over 300 subscribers are currently signed up (a 200% increase since the start of the contest; there were 107 the day before we started).
- 22 Posts about the contest on other sites
Again I’d like to thank everyone that has participated so far. I’d also like to thank our contest sponsers XLAutomation & ExcelConsultant.net. Check out their sites, they offer some great services.
What Version Of Excel Do You Use?
We just closed our first poll on Excel Hints after receiving over 100 votes. Thanks to everyone who participated. The results were pretty much as expected. We asked users of the site which version of Excel they were currently using.
I expected the results be lean more towards Excel 2003 still, since it seemed to me that many businesses out there have not felt the need to upgrade to 2007 yet. I think some are still nervous about learning the new interface that Office 2007 came out with. But the poll shows the results are pretty close between Excel 2003 & Excel 2007 for readers of Excel Hints. Below is a chart of the results of the poll.
Find the 2nd Largest Value in a Range
Excel provides an easy way to list the k-th (first, second, third, etc.) largest number in a range. We’ll also take a look at the opposite situation where you want to find the 2nd smallest value in a range, for example.
Large & Small Formulas
So let’s go ahead and take a look at the formulas:
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Contest Update: Enter Now!
THIS CONTEST CONCLUDED 11/30/2008. Thanks to everyone for entering.
There are 3 weeks left in our first contest giveaway (ends November 30th, 2008), so get your entries in now. The contest is gaining momentum and we are very pleased with the number of entries so far.
- 105 new Subscribers since the start of the contest (almost double the 107 at the start).
- 15 posts about the contest on other sites.
- 10 Hours Free Consulting from XLAutomation
- Office 2007 Standard – Full Version
- 2 Gb iPod Shuffle from ExcelConsultant
- $50 Cash
Click here for all of the contest details and rules.
