In a recent post I audited my colleague’s amazing array formula. It extracted the largest number from as420lkjs09nsdk2324lkjsd099 See other solutions suggested by YouTube viewers! Continue reading
I saw Chandeep’s Data Cleanup Challenge and it looked like fun. Others solved it using Power Query (some amazing solutions) but I used good ol’ fashioned formulas! Continue reading
A friend shared this challenge: extract the largest number from this text as420lkjs09nsdk2324lkjsd099 ! The answer is 2324. How do we solve this? Formulas? VBA? Continue reading
How can you improve your VBA skills? Build something! Anything! Even if it’s ridiculous. I needed to practice and ended up creating a robot and a bunch of random style hearts! 🙂 Continue reading
Before you analyze your data it’s important to decide if you need to unpivot it. Why unpivot? What’s unpivot? Are there exceptions? Continue reading
Rearranging data is initially about recognizing the pattern. This screenshot is from Ken Puls. I instantly saw the steps to rearrange the data (thanks to Ken’s online course!) Continue reading
Robert H. Gascon’s comment from my last post convinced me that I should be using the INDEX function for dynamic ranges not the volatile OFFSET function. Continue reading
=SUMPRODUCT(MID(G2,{1;2;3},1)*1) I found this formula in a notebook. Can you understand it’s purpose? I’ll explain it in this post. I’ll also expand it for a more complex case. Continue reading
The term False Friends is used in various fields including linguistics and chess. In this post I’ll explain how it applies to Microsoft Excel! Continue reading
My super fit cousin Joe Perry contacted me with a few questions about an Excel spreadsheet he uses to track his running. Continue reading