JournalofAccountancy

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 ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Other versions of Excel may work differently. Extracting ... Let’s focus on those two. The first argument is “Text,” which is the text string we want to split. The second argument is Col_delimiter, ...

Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...
Geeky Gadgets

Excel’s Ultimate FILTER Hack : Multiple Columns Multiple Values

What if you could take the chaos of a sprawling Excel spreadsheet and distill it into exactly the information you need—no fluff, no manual sifting, just precision? For anyone who’s ever wrestled with ...
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Old Excel functions you should stop using (and what to replace them with)

Excel is packed with functions, but if you're still relying on VLOOKUP, nested IF statements, or CONCATENATE, you're making your spreadsheets harder to manage than they need to be. Microsoft has newer ...
Redmond Magazine

Working With Checkboxes in Excel, Part 2: Adding Complexity

Here's how to build smarter checklists in Excel using checkboxes, conditional formatting and task dependencies to help with multi-step processes. In my previous article in this series, I walked you ...