Pick the Right Excel Lookup, XLOOKUP or FILTER for Your Data & Stop Wasting Time

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.
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These wildcards in Excel are your secret weapon for faster, smarter searches

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...

How to move highlighted cells in Excel

This guide describes how to move highlighted cells in Excel in Windows 11/10 using drag and drop, cut and paste, and other ...

8 Excel Features That Quickly Improve Your Work : Flash Fill, Paste Special & the Magic F4 Key

Learn Paste Special math, Flash Fill patterns, Go To Special filters, and the F4 shortcut to clean data fast and share Excel ...
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My 6 favorite Excel features that almost nobody talks about

This feature works best when the columns you want to visualize are adjacent to each other, so you may need to rearrange your ...

How to link Checkboxes to Multiple Cells in Excel

This guide describes how to link checkboxes to multiple cells in Excel in Windows 11/10 manually, or automate the process ...
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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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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...