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Stop removing duplicates in Excel: The UNIQUE function is safer and dynamic

To make the most of the UNIQUE function, you should make sure your array is in an Excel table. By using a table name rather ...
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Clean Excel Data Like a Pro – Essential Functions for Cleaning & Organizing Data

Have you ever stared at a chaotic spreadsheet, wondering how to make sense of the jumble of numbers, text, and inconsistent formatting? You’re not alone. Messy data is a universal frustration, whether ...
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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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Quickly clean data with Excel’s TRIMRANGE and trim references

Q. How do the TRIMRANGE function and trim references in Excel work? A. Excel’s TRIMRANGE function and trim references help users quickly tidy up datasets. This makes for a cleaner, easier-to-follow, ...
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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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Functions of Different Categories in Excel

To analyze your company's payroll expenditures, you might create an Excel spreadsheet and use some of the functions in the Financial or Math & Trigonometry categories. To create a pricing spreadsheet, ...