Excel Showing Formula Instead of Result

Excel Showing Formula Instead of Result

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, …

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Extract URL from Hyperlinks in Excel

Extract URL from Hyperlinks in Excel

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 …

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Calculate Fiscal Year from Date in Excel (Formulas)

Get Fiscal Year from Date in Excel

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 …

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How to Calculate Number of Weeks Between Two Dates in Excel

Get Number of Weeks Between Two Dates

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 …

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How to Add Parentheses Around Text in Excel

How to Add Parentheses Around Text in Excel

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 …

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Check IF Cell Contains Partial Text in Excel (Formulas)

Check IF Cell Contains Partial Text in Excel (Formulas)

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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Insert Pi Symbol (Ï€) in Excel

Insert Pi Symbol (Ï€) in Excel

The Pi symbol (Ï€) represents a mathematical constant that is used when calculating the area circumference of a circle. I’m sure you must have seen and worked with the Pi symbol in your geometry and math classes, and it also has a lot of practical applications in the real world. In this article, I will …

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Calculate Interquartile Range (IQR) in Excel

Calculate Inter Quartile Range (IQR) in Excel

Interquartile Range (IQR) is often used in statistics to identify outliers and understand the spread of the middle 50% of the data set. Interquartile Range allows you to analyze data without it getting skewed by outliers and extreme values. This helps us get a better view of the variability of the data as compared to …

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Find the Second Largest Value in Excel

Find the Second Largest Value in Excel

If you want to get the highest value in a column or a range, you can easily do that using the built-in MAX function in Excel. But what if you want to get the second largest value, the third largest value, or the nth largest value from the same data set? In this scenario, you …

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