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The new BYCOL function is currently only available to Office Insiders, but it promises to make calculating columns easier and more efficient. The Sales by Month table contains monthly sales figures for six products. If you wanted to calculate the…
A running total is the summation of the current and previous numbers in a column. It’s a useful way of keeping track of sales figures over a time period or for monitoring the balance on a bank statement. Have a…
The RANDBETWEEN function provides a non-dynamic array solution to creating a set of random numbers. It returns an integer between the minimum and maximum values you specify. The problem is, however, it is likely to return duplicates after each worksheet…
Many Excel functions are dynamic array-friendly, meaning they are capable of returning a spilled range. This isn’t just true for newer ones such as FILTER, SORT, and UNIQUE, but others as well like MATCH, LEFT, and LEN. Unfortunately, some aren’t….
It’s probably not something you give much thought about, but awareness of the different Excel file types is important, so you can avoid limitations and data loss. Before Excel 2007, the default file format was XLS (.xls); this was then…
When a resource-intensive task is processing, such as a complex formula, macro or query, it can cause Excel to become unresponsive. This is particularly annoying if you have multiple workbooks open, as you are forced to wait because you cannot…
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