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Did you know we can auto-generate Sudoku puzzles right inside Excel, without manually entering grid layouts? With the WEBSERVICE function and a little help from a Sudoku API, we can create both a playable Sudoku puzzle and its corresponding solution dynamically. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll show how to make a Sudoku board using Excel’s…
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In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a dynamic weekly calendar in Excel that shows which programs or events are running on any given day. This technique is perfect for managing schedules where events have different start and end dates and may only occur on certain weekdays. Objective We are trying to…
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Welcome to this tutorial on how to find invalid characters in Microsoft Excel. In this tutorial, we will explore different methods including formulas and conditional formatting to detect and highlight characters you define as “invalid” in your Excel worksheets. Since you can easily customize the list of “invalid” characters, this approach is extremely flexible and…
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In this post, we’ll explore a formula-based approach that does not use VBA to find the last occurrence of a delimiter and use it to retrieve the lowest sub account from a Quickbooks account list in Excel. When I was doing some research for a project I had a couple of years ago, I was…
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