Foolish Collective Spreadsheet Project Archive

Here is the final project archive of the spreadsheet project. The purpose of this project is to teach a novice how to create and use a spreadsheet. These lessons are meant to be applied to the field of investment and financial analysis.

I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to this project. They are 1971simon, confusedfool100, eeii, gebinr, GrandpaRalph, haywool, HGBG, KennyO, Lostinthought, lynbee, obenation, Olya, PosFCF, Rijer, sean1arch, and Zarff.

Week #1: Cells, Rows, Columns, Sheets & Referencing
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20193206&sort=whole
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20199191&sort=whole

Week #2: Functions
Math Functions
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20209336&sort=whole

Financial Functions
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20214370&sort=whole

Statistical Functions
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20214493&sort=whole

Boolean logic & nested functions
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20247876&sort=whole
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20250124&sort=whole

Lookup/Reference/Database Functions
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20362558&sort=whole
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20445672&sort=whole

Week #3: Formatting, Posting to boards/web
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20259028&sort=whole

Week #4: Charts & Graphs
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20368402&sort=whole
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20368404&sort=whole

Week #5: Macros
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20451485

Week #6: Web Querries & linking spreadsheets
Introduction
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20363553&sort=whole

Part 1: File structure conventions and file naming conventions
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20365807&sort=whole

Part 2: A simple “canned” web query – downloading a set of stock quotes
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20369840&sort=whole

Part 3a: Making your own web query – Downloading 4 quarters of Income Statement data with Excel 2000
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20395758&sort=whole

Part 3b: Making your own web query – Downloading 4 quarters of Income Statement data with Excel 2002
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20395787&sort=whole

Part 4: Editing the query to make it generic
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20381715&sort=whole

Part 5: Combining several queries and computations to make a “stock” spreadsheet
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20389030&sort=whole

Part 6: Setting up a “Master” spreadsheet and linking the first and subsequent “stock” spreadsheets to the “master” spreadsheet
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20397219&sort=whole

Part 7: Tips, Tricks, and Things that go Bump! in the Night.
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20397307&sort=whole

Web Querries for Excel '97:
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20216215

Sample Template
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20420188&sort=whole

Week #7: Debugging & troubleshooting
Common errors and debugging
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20449307&sort=whole

Data Manipulation (sorting, filtering, importing data):
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20423984&sort=whole

Week #8: Data sources that provide Excel downloads and Sample spreadsheets
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20469226&sort=whole
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20516557&sort=whole

Tips & Tricks -
Shortcut keys
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20207238
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20199225
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20207623

Find & Replace, Splitting Windows, Freezing Panes, Comments, Names in a workbook
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20447657

Spreadsheet Advice board:
http://boards.fool.com/Messages.asp?mid=20400693

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