Automatically Sort Data in Alphabetical Order using Formula

Excel built-in data sorting is amazing, but it isn’t dynamic. If you sort data and then add data to it, you would need to sort it again. Sort Data in Alphabetical Order In this post, I will show you various ways to sort data in alphabetical order using formulas. This means you can add data, …

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CONCATENATE Excel Range (with and without separator)

In Excel, there are two ways to combine the contents of multiple cells: If you’re using Excel with Office 365 subscription, I suggest you click here to skip to the part where the TEXTJOIN function is covered. If you’re not using Office 365, keep reading. In its basic form, CONCATENATE function can join 2 or …

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How to Generate Unique Random Numbers in Excel (No Duplicates)

I was going through the questions on the Microsoft Excel Community, and one of the questions was on generating random numbers in Excel between 1 to 10, where none of the numbers repeat (i.e., there are no duplicates). My first instinct was to use the RANDBETWEEN function. I did a quick check with some random data …

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VLOOKUP Vs. INDEX/MATCH – Which One is Better? (Answered)

When it comes to the Excel world, it’s divided into two factions – the VLOOKUP brigade and the INDEX/MATCH regiment. If you’re wondering which one scores higher in the VLOOKUP vs INDEX/MATCH battle, this article will try and answer it. But before I do that, let me make a few things clear – this article …

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Extract Usernames from Email Ids in Excel [2 Methods]

A colleague asked me if she could quickly extract usernames from Email Ids. She had more than 1000 records and less than 2 minutes to do it. In this tutorial, I will show you 2 methods to do this. And none of it would take more than a minute. Method 1 – Using Text to …

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Find the Closest Match in Excel (using Formulas)

Excel functions can be extremely powerful if you get a hang of combining different formulas. Things that might have seemed impossible would suddenly start looking like a child’s play. One such example is to find the closest match of a lookup value in a dataset in Excel. There are a couple of useful lookup functions …

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