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Excel’s INFO and CELL functions tell you what’s happening under the hood

Excel has plenty of built-in functions for calculations, but some of the most useful ones don't crunch numbers at all—they reveal information about your spreadsheet itself. The INFO and CELL functions ...
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These wildcards in Excel are your secret weapon for faster, smarter searches

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

Excel HYPERLINK Secret Turns Messy Workbooks into Sleek Dashboards

Learn practical HYPERLINK tips, from dynamic sheet links and navigation buttons to XLOOKUP row jumps and tidy anchor text for client reports.
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...