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Excel users: Boost your productivity with these game-changing hacks

While you're playing around with the settings in Excel, consider switching to dark mode. If you spend all day staring at spreadsheets and find the white Excel canvas gives you a headache, switching to ...
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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 ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel ... (text, delimiter, [instance_num], [match_mode], [match_end], [if_not_found]). The required arguments are the text and delimiter arguments.

Struggling with Excel Formula Errors? This Guide Has the Answers

Fix Excel formulas that won’t spill! Learn how to troubleshoot #VALUE errors caused by Analysis ToolPak functions and improve your workflow.

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 ...

I hated typing on my phone until a tiny keyboard adjustment changed everything

All that is required is to press the button with four small squares in the upper-left corner of the keyboard, then tap Resize ...