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Microsoft Excel isn't a database, please stop using it like one

Excel offers no such constraint. If someone is determined to enter bad data, they can simply paste values over a validated ...
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How to use the DGET function in Microsoft Excel

The DGET function in Excel is a Database function that extracts from a database a single record that matches the specified criteria. The formula for the DGET function is DGET (database, field, ...
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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 ...
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Excel’s Ultimate FILTER Hack : Multiple Columns Multiple Values

What if you could take the chaos of a sprawling Excel spreadsheet and distill it into exactly the information you need—no fluff, no manual sifting, just precision? For anyone who’s ever wrestled with ...