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How to Use the VALUE Function in Microsoft Excel

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that the VALUE function in Microsoft Excel is obsolete. You'll probably seldom need to use it on its own, but when combined with other functions, it's still as ...
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6 Functions That Changed How You Use Microsoft Excel

The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...

Build Faster Excel Workflows Using FILTER, IFS, XLOOKUP, and LET for Real-World Data

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...
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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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Microsoft Excel: 3 ways to calculate internal rate of return in Excel

Q. I have prepared projections for a proposed project, and I want to calculate the internal rate of return. Instead of using Excel’s IRR function, should I use simple math formulas so others can ...
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Build Precise Excel Filters with SEARCH : Plus Flexible REGEXMATCH and BYROW XMATCH

What if you could transform your Excel workflow from tedious manual filtering to a seamless, dynamic process that feels almost magical? For years, Excel users have relied on basic tools to sift ...