by Crispo Mwangi | Jan 20, 2023 | INTERMEDIATE EXCEL
A friend recently asked me, “How do I condition format duplicates for Long Numbers formatted as text?” I thought…that is easy! Just go to condition formatting and select the in-built rule of highlighting duplicate rules. WRONG! Hardly did I know...
by Crispo Mwangi | Jan 8, 2023 | INTERMEDIATE EXCEL
Reverse lookup of numbers is easier than that of texts. Reverse Lookup Numbers For example, how do you look up the appointment date and time for a patient in the below data? The below video explains the steps Note: ⭐ It is possible to create an array of Date and Time...
by Crispo Mwangi | Dec 30, 2022 | INTERMEDIATE EXCEL
By default, VLOOKUP is set to return a Single column but with a small tweak, it can return multiple columns. =VLOOKUP(G2,B2:E24,{3,4},FALSE) The only trick is to put the multiple columns in curly braces. NB: You can insert the column numbers in any order. For example,...
by Crispo Mwangi | Dec 26, 2022 | INTERMEDIATE EXCEL
Many users think you cannot use multiple criteria in a VLOOKUP Function, but this is wrong. =VLOOKUP( G2&H2, CHOOSE( {1,2},sales[Name]&sales[Region],sales[Date]) ,2,FALSE) DOWNLOAD...
by Crispo Mwangi | Dec 23, 2022 | INTERMEDIATE EXCEL
Initializing a single middle name is easy using a simple 3 steps: =LEFT(name,FIND(” “,name)) & IF(COUNTIF(name,”* * *”),MID(name,FIND(” “,name)+1,1)&”. “,””) & RIGHT(name,LEN(name)-FIND(”...
by Crispo Mwangi | Nov 24, 2022 | INTERMEDIATE EXCEL
Of all lookup functions, HLOOKUP is among the least famous ones. It looks up a value in the first row and returns any corresponding item in another row. Look up value MUST be in the top row of a table. How do you make it return multiple items? It’s default...
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