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Using excel, how can I count the number of cells in a column containing the text "true" or "false"?
I have a spreadsheet that has a column of cells where each cell contains a single word. I would like to count the occurrences of some words. I can use the COUNTIF function for most words, but if the ...
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Cannot delete created excel table
I have created an excel table. However, I now want to delete or change it because my range changed.
However I can't delete it in the excel Name Manager:
Any suggestion why I cannot delete it?
Would ...
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Formula to see if a series of numbers is increasing in value?
I have a spread sheet with thousands of sets of numbers. That is too say, there are ten columns and each column has a number - and there are thousands of rows of these numbers.
What I want to do is ...
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How to compare two Excel spreadsheets?
I would like to compare two Excel spreadsheets
Both have the same columns, in the same order, but not the same rows.
I have a spreadsheet with 1,000 rows and 50 columns including a unique ID for ...
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Excel Formula to Calculate Duration of Time Based on a String of Text Such As 9:00am — 12:30pm
I'm trying to develop an Excel formula that would calculate the actual time duration for a string of a time range of the following format: 1:00am – 3:00am
According to this article it seems it should ...
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ADDRESS function nested in SUM returns Err: 502
When working on one problem, I came upon something that confuses me and was hoping for some clarification.
I am trying to use the SUM() function in a very round about way.
The formula
=SUM(ADDRESS(...
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Excel annoyance: How to maintain formulas in a ledger?
A common use of Excel is to create a spreadsheet which functions as a transaction ledger of some kind, where one or more fields in each row is calculated by adding a value or values from the current ...
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What's the difference between "vlookup" and "lookup" in Excel?
What is the main basic difference between VLOOKUP and LOOKUP in Excel?
I read the main point is that you can specify a range of columns in VLOOKUP and then pick one to return the value. However, it ...
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In Excel, doing a "Freeze Panes" on the right-most column instead of the left-most?
My understanding of Excel's "Freeze Panes" feature is that you can only freeze the left-most column(s), or top-most row(s).
However, I have a table where a very important column needs to be located ...
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Turn Excel spreadsheet into a formula [closed]
I have an Excel spreadsheet that has a complex computation that is not trivial to turn into a macro or a single-cell formula. The spreadsheet has about 10 different inputs (values a human enters in ...
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Using VLOOKUP for multiple lookup values, then summing the outputs
Example:
I have a sheet listing the number of calories for various foods.
In another sheet I have a list of some of those foods to be used in a meal, and would like to calculate the total number of ...
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Filtering over merged downwards cells in MS Excel-2016
Note: This question has been asked back in 2010 on this site here. And yet, I would like to post it one more time, showing what I did and what didn't work. Besides, Excel has changed quite a bit since ...
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Sum values in specific rows based on whether the row has a value that belongs to a range
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I have a table that has several metrics (example: revenue, cost, etc.) for about a hundred different accounts. I can't modify this sheet because it gets auto-updated by a ...
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How to calculate how much I've worked per day?
I'm having a problem when I try to calculate how much time I've worked per day by using an Excel formula. It returns valid results for when I've worked until 12:00 PM but if I passes it, values come ...
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How do you properly align average and standard deviation outputs in a spreadsheet?
I am not sure of the best way of formulating this question right now so I will use an example using random numbers. I start with values assigned to IDs, so that each ID can be n=1, n=2, ... etc
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