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Conditional Formatting allows you to add a visual layer to your dataset and make it easier to understand. You can use it to quickly highlight cells that satisfy the specified conditions (such as highlighting cells with the top 3 values or highlighting all cells that contain the word ‘Excel’, etc.) But sometimes Conditional Formatting may …
Most of my work involves getting data from various sources, such as databases, webpages, or other people. In most cases, the first step is to clean the data and make it usable for my analysis. Sometimes, I get datasets that have an additional character in the end that I want to remove. Thanks to some …
There are multiple ways to calculate the square of a number in Excel. You can use the in-built POWER function or the Caret operator (^). Let me show you how to quickly calculate the square of a number in Excel. Using the POWER Function POWER function allows you to get the square, cube, or any …
Sometimes, it happens that instead of showing the result of a formula in Excel, you see the formula itself. Below, I have an example where I have a formula in column C, and instead of showing the result of the formula, Excel shows the formula itself. This is a pretty common occurrence with Excel users, …
Many of my projects involve working with data from the web, where I get hyperlinks in cells in Excel when I copy the data from other sources. Something as shown below (source): One of the first things I often have to do is extract the URLs from these hyperlinks so that I can do my …
I was recently working on a project where I had some dates and had to classify each date into its fiscal year (also sometimes called the financial year). While Excel does not have a dedicated function to do this, it can quickly be done using a combination of functions. In this article, I will show …
When working with dates and making project plans in Excel, you may come across a situation where you want to know how many weeks there are between two dates. While there is no built-in function to do this in Excel, this can easily be done using other simple functions. In this short article, I will …
Sometimes, when working with text data in Excel, you may want to add parentheses around the text in a cell or range of cells. For example, below, I have a data set with the region name in column A, and I want to put these names in parentheses or brackets. As always, Excel offers multiple …
Sometimes, in my work, I have to check if a cell or a range of cells contains the partial text I’m looking for. For example, suppose I want to check whether a cell contains the text string “ABC” or not. The cell may have additional strings or characters, but as long as it has the …
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