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I replaced several Excel formatting tools with a single hidden feature

One custom format field can scale numbers, add icons, apply color rules, and clean up visual clutter instantly.

Most Excel Users Are Missing Out on Advanced Conditional Formatting

Discover advanced Excel conditional formatting techniques. Automate your spreadsheets by detecting duplicates, finding ...
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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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How to use the new TEXTSPLIT() function in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel’s new text function TEXTSPLIT() is Excel’s TEXT TO COLUMNS feature in a formula and a bit more. Working with strings in Microsoft Excel is common, whether you’re parsing, concatenating ...
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6 Microsoft Excel features that feel like cheating

These Excel tools turn a few quick clicks into polished, complex-looking spreadsheets that seem like they took far longer to ...