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Excel's UNIQUE function can't skip columns—unless you use this trick

Nest CHOOSECOLS inside UNIQUE to extract non-adjacent columns, and use INDIRECT for interactive header dropdowns.
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How to use the MAP function in Microsoft Excel

Row precision vs. Aggregation errors: MAP is the best way to use "greedy" functions like AND or OR in a single, dynamic ...

Build Faster Excel Workflows Using FILTER, IFS, XLOOKUP, and LET for Real-World Data

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...
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How to use Excel FILES a secret, powerful hidden function

The guide provides insight into how to use the hidden “FILES” function in Excel, a legacy macro function that lists all files in a specified folder. MyOnlineTrainingHub takes you through how to enable ...
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Using and Creating Functions

Although there are many functions in the base package of R, sometimes there may not be a function that does exactly what you want. In this case, R allows users to create their own functions and call ...
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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 ...