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Stop using so many tabs in Microsoft Excel

Fragmenting your data across many Excel tabs is a common habit that silently kills file performance, introduces hidden errors ...
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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 programming language. Instead of scattering your intermediate calculations ...

This Simple Excel Trick Makes Dynamic Filters Update Themselves in Seconds

Learn how DROP, REDUCE, LAMBDA, and STACK make Excel arrays update automatically, split text, and stack filtered results ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...