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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

Data validation in Excel lets you restrict what can be entered into a cell, whether whole numbers, decimals, dates, or a certain number of characters. However, one of the most powerful capabilities of ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users ... By default, it returns N/A, or you can enter what to return instead. The ...
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How to Use the VALUE Function in Microsoft Excel

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.
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Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...
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Excel + AI: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function directly into spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...
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Create a dynamic to-do list with Excel’s checkboxes

Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...