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Excel Tips: How to Build and Use Regex Like a Pro

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 ...
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How to us Excel REGEX functions to easily extract, clean and format data

Recently Microsoft has introduced a game-changing set of functions in it’s Excel spreadsheet software that harness the power of Regular Expressions (REGEX) to streamline data extraction, cleaning, and ...
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Excel’s hidden REGEX and SCAN functions do way more than you expect

Excel has formulas for just about everything—XMATCH for finding data, IF for logic, and SUMIF for conditional totals. But you've probably hit a wall if you've ever needed to extract specific patterns ...
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Four ways to specify dates using Excel data validation

Excel's data validation feature is more versatile than you might think. Learn how to use literal values, input values, list values, and even formulas to restrict input date values using data ...
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Use Excel data validation to prevent duplicate values in a column

Use Excel data validation to prevent duplicate values in a column Your email has been sent Prevent duplicates before they happen by combining a simple function with data validation. Excel has built-in ...

How to create a drop-down list in Excel to manage data and prevent mistakes

You can easily create a drop-down list in Excel to limit the values that can be entered in a column. Here's how to set one up ...