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TEXTJOIN
Welcome to this tutorial on combining text in Excel! In this post, we will explore three different ways to join or combine text values in Excel. Whether you want to use Flash Fill, concatenation, or the TEXTJOIN function, we will cover them all. So let’s get started! Video Step-by-step Tutorial The objective of this tutorial…
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Looking to make work easier? Instead of trying to do it all, focus on learning these nine useful advanced Excel functions.
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This is the third post in this series, where we are doing lookup tasks with the FILTER function instead of VLOOKUP. In the first post, we discovered that the FILTER function supports multiple return columns. In the second post, we discovered that it also supports multiple lookup columns. In this post, we’ll discover that it…
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In a previous post, we talked about how the CONCAT function joins values to create a combined text string. As a quick review, the CONCAT function is designed to replace the CONCATENATE function and supports range references as well as cell references. Well, as soon as we start playing around with CONCAT to join range…
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Here’s the situation. We have created a PivotTable and related PivotChart, and, since we are nice, we have also provided a Slicer so that the user can easily make selections. But, we’d like the report titles to dynamically update based on the selections made. As with anything in Excel, there are multiple ways to accomplish…
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Often when we use Excel, we think of its ability to operate on numbers. But, Excel is also good at operating on other data types, such as dates and text strings. When we limit our use of formulas to numbers only, we miss out on many opportunities for efficiency. In this article, I’ll talk about…
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