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…
Excel’s FILTER function filters a set of data based on defined criteria. However, it doesn’t allow for partial matches that use wildcards. What are the wildcard characters? One workaround is to use FILTER in conjunction with ISNUMBER and SEARCH in…
In the late nineties when I was still at primary school, I remember us having a weekly spelling test. There were 10 words the teacher would say aloud, and we would have 30 seconds to write each of them down….
Do you wish you could write comments in formulas? Unfortunately, Excel doesn’t have an official way of including formula-based comments. I suspect this will change in the future, however, as we are writing increasingly more complex formulae. The workaround is…
I wish there was a formatting option in Excel and Google Sheets to hide trailing zeros in decimal values. For example, a dynamic chart that displays whole and decimal numbers should adapt so each figure is outputted appropriately. If I…
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