Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...
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How to use conditional formatting to compare values from row to row, or not, in Excel

How to use conditional formatting to compare values from row to row, or not, in Excel Your email has been sent Conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel has been around for a long time, but I find ...
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Learning REDUCE in Excel completely changed how I use spreadsheets

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work ... are the text and delimiter arguments. The text argument references the text or cell where you’re searching. The delimiter is the marker ...
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These wildcards in Excel are your secret weapon for faster, smarter searches

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions ... To transform data into a usable format, we can use TEXTSPLIT. TEXTSPLIT has six arguments, but only two are required. Let’s focus on those two. The first argument ...