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Two unusual formulas can use the SEARCH or FIND functions to search any number of cells for any number of words—almost instantly.
Data Management

How I Set Up SEARCH and FIND Formulas on Steroids

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I've used Excel long enough to recognize when I've stumbled across an unusual formula. And it happened again a few minutes ago. In the past,...
Use this unique Excel dashboard to track the general rate of inflation, your personal rate, and the rate of the goods and services you buy.

Inflation Tracker Excel Dashboard with Consumer Prices

Excel's Quick Access Toolbar can save you many clicks and needless work. Here are the eight QAT tools that I use, and how I use them.

Eight Great Tools for Your Quick Access Toolbar

Update this Excel dashboard with 15 key US mortgage interest rates every business day, with one command. Each chart shows 71 days of rates.

Mortgage Rates Excel Dashboard

How to Set Up Multiple Conditional Formats with Formulas

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Use this unique Excel dashboard to track the general rate of inflation, your personal rate, and the rate of the goods and services you buy.

Inflation Tracker Excel Dashboard with Consumer Prices

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U.S. President John F. Kennedy once said of a growing economy, "A rising tide lifts all boats." However, a rising inflationary tide does not lift...
Using Excel's LET, SORTBY, and SEQUENCE functions, and dynamic arrays, you easily can list any number of top and bottom results from a Table.

How to Report Top and Bottom Results Using Dynamic Arrays in Excel

Array Formulas Charley Kyd -
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In How to Use Excel’s LET Function, I showed several examples of a powerful function that Microsoft added to Excel 365 in the summer...
How to aggregate named groups of GL accounts.

How to Report GL Account Groups in Excel

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Believe it or not, this income statement is quite sophisticated. It's not nearly as simple-minded as it looks. In fact, this income statement illustrates a...
In Excel, you can report named groups of GL account numbers, product codes, and so on—just as you report one such number. Here’s how.

How to Use Array Formulas to Report Groups of Accounts

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Often, in accounting, marketing, and other departments, we'd like to report and analyze groups of items rather than one item at a time. In Part...
Use this Excel dashboard to track 27 economic indicators of the United States' recovery from the Covid-19 recession.

Learn How to Use Excel to Track the US Recovery from the Covid Recession

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The Covid recession is the worst recession the world has experienced since the Great Depression. And the Recovery Tracker workbook and Excel training can...

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Analytical Methods

A Lesson in Excel Analysis Learned from Rising US Inflation

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Looking at the trends in the annual rate of change (ROC) of business and economic measures is an excellent way to reveal hidden information...
Here's how you can split delimited text into an array with a short Excel formula, and then wrap the formula with the INDEX function to return any value from the array.

How to Split and Index Delimited Text with Excel Formulas

Berkshire Hathaway is raising prices, and their costs are increasing. Inflation is on the rise. These Excel charts illustrate the the problem.

Warren Buffett, Inflation, and Excel

Add Low-Overwhelm Context to Your Line Charts

When you're refinancing, this chart allows you to use the tip of your finger trade off your monthly payments and your total payments as you consider the term of your loan.

Calculate Mortgage Payments and Your ROA with an Excel CalcPlot Chart

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In VBA, you'll save time and frustration by always declaring your variables and by also using Hungarian notation. Here's why and how to do that.
Excel Methods

Declaring Variables in VBA: Three Keys for Success

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A recent post in an Excel forum included some VBA code and asked why the code kept failing. The first few lines of code...
Three More Simple Tricks to Improve Excel Charts for Business

Three More Simple Tricks to Improve Excel Charts for Business

Conditional formatting with formulas offers power and flexibility for your Excel reports. Here's how to get started.

Conditional Formatting with Formulas

The extreme variability caused by seasonal sales makes it difficult to track and forecast your underlying sales trends. Here's how to solve that problem.

How to Create a Rolling Forecast of Seasonal Sales in...

Berkshire Hathaway is raising prices, and their costs are increasing. Inflation is on the rise. These Excel charts illustrate the the problem.

Warren Buffett, Inflation, and Excel

Excel Methods

Excel's range names offer great power and flexibility. And they're not hard to use. Here's an introduction to the power that Excel provides.
Range Names

Introducing the Power of Excel Range Names

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Many Excel users seldom use range names. This fact always surprises me because Excel names are powerful, flexible, and easy to use. Excel offers two...
When we import data into Excel, dates can arrive in formats that Excel wasn't designed to translate. Here are some ways to make sense of unusual dates.

How to Convert Unusual Date Text Imported to Excel

Using Excel's LET, SORTBY, and SEQUENCE functions, and dynamic arrays, you easily can list any number of top and bottom results from a Table.

How to Report Top and Bottom Results Using Dynamic Arrays in...

Here are the only two ways I know to set up formulas that look up data in an Excel Table, using more than one criteria.

Two Ways to Set Up Multi-Criteria Lookup Formulas in Excel

You need a volatile workbook to test Excel calculation speeds. Here's how I set one up to test lookup formulas.

A Volatile Workbook to Test Calculation Times for Excel Lookup Methods

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When you bring data from another source into an Excel worksheet, the data often includes rows that you’ll want to delete. Here's the first of two methods.

How to Delete Blank or Unneeded Rows, Method 1

Worksheet Interaction Charley Kyd -
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When you bring data from another source into an Excel worksheet, the data often includes rows that you’ll want to delete. Often, you’ll want...
When you want to look up data in Excel, you should never use a worksheet function with "lookup" in its name. Here's why...

Why INDEX-MATCH Is Far Better Than VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP in Excel

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(Download the workbook.) Excel’s VLOOKUP function is more popular than the INDEX-MATCH function combination, probably because when Excel users need to look up data then a "lookup" function...
Excel provides several worksheet functions for working with normal distributions or 'bell-shaped curves.' This introduction to Excel's Normal Distribution functions offers help for the statistically challenged.

An Introduction to Excel’s Normal Distribution Functions

Business Statistics Charley Kyd -
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(Download the workbook.) When a visitor asked me how to generate a random number from a Normal distribution she set me to thinking about doing statistics...
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