While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

The Microsoft Office Excel program does much more than create spreadsheets. Within it, you can perform advanced mathematical calculations and transformations based on information contained within ...

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Power users love to talk about how powerful and awesome Excel is, what with its Pivot Tables, nested formulas, and Boolean logic. But many of us barely know how to find the Autosum feature, let alone ...

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Regex patterns help search text strings efficiently (e.g., emails, digits, specific sequences) using symbols. Excel provides predefined regex functions (REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE) to ...