How to Split and Index Delimited Text with Excel Formulas
For the longest time I've wished that Microsoft would add a SPLIT function to Excel. The function would have a syntax like this...
=SPLIT(text, delimiter,...
Use Benford’s Law & Charts in Excel to Improve Business Planning
Unless you're a public accountant, you probably haven't experimented with Benford's Law.
Auditors sometimes use this fascinating statistical insight to uncover fraudulent accounting data. But it might reveal...
How I Set Up SEARCH and FIND Formulas on Steroids
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,...
A Two-Part Excel Puzzle, with Arrays, Text, ASCII, and Concatenation
Recently, I needed to compare two long columns of text of various lengths to make sure that each row of text in column A...
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
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