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What is the difference between function and formula in Excel?

What is the difference between those two when speaking of Microsoft Excel?
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How do I ensure only integers and with no duplicated values can appear in a column in Excel 2007?

How do I ensure only integers with no duplicated values can appear in a column in Excel 2007?
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How to input only unique values in a column in Excel 2007

I'd like to know the easiest way to make sure that only unique strings are entered in a particular column in MS Excel 2007? I know I have to put a formula in the Data > Data Validation, but I don't ...
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How to make this formula to work in Excel 2007?

How would one make this formula =MAX(LEN(A2:A9)) work in Excel 2007? I want the value of the longest field in A2:A9 range. I found this link: http://www.mrexcel.com/td0021.html, but it's old now.
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Does Excel have a row filtering function (more general version of SUMIF/COUNTIF)

SUMIF and COUNTIF functions are handy for simple SUM and COUNT operations on only some of the values in a range, but is there a more general version that would allow me to plug in any other function I ...
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Excel - Delete specific word in each row?

Is there a way to have Excel delete a sepcific word in every row? For example, each row says Mr. and Mrs. {first name} {last name}, and I want to delete the {first name} from each one. (Or ...
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Excel formula - sometimes array formula, sometimes not

I want to write some data to an Excel file, and I want the first page to show a summary of the data that are spread all over the sheets. The individual data items on a sheet can be included or ...
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Formula in Excel

Below is the data: A B C xxx 2 5 xxx 3 4 bbb 2 3 bbb 2.5 2 nnn 1.5 2 nnn 2 1 I want to ...
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Shortest Method To Reference A Single Row/Column of a Named Range in Excel?

I have a named range (NamedRange1) and I need to reference the first row and first column of that range within a formula. I came up with the following: First row: INDIRECT("R" & ROW(...
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Excel row-wise multiplication

I would like to multiply, row-by-row, two columns in an Excel sheet (in order to take the median of the resulting column). 1 3 2 5 4 2 Should become 3 10 8 How can I do that in a formula (i.e. ...
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Replicating common Excel Functions

I am always curious how some of the functions I use in excel were written, and think it would help at times to see how it was done. Does anyone know where there is example vba that replicates what ...
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excel - merge cells including a zip code

I have the need to merge a bunch of cells that comprise an address (street, city, state, zip) into a single cell. No problem except with the zip code. The zip cell has only 4 digits for any zip ...
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Excel, Lookup special characters and spaces

I have an excel, spreadsheet that has multiple sheets. The first sheet is an index of files, I am using the following forumla to look up a value in column A, references against the index sheet, if it ...
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How to calculate hours and minutes between two time periods?

I’m working on a very simple time sheet for my work in Excel 2007, but I have run into trouble about calculate the hours and minutes between two time periods. I have a field: timestart which could be ...
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Conditional Lookup in Excel

I want to use excel to compare pairs of numbers from the "Pre/Post" column of the following data: Student Course Pre/Post Score K300997203 FHS120100417 Pre 3 L286197217 ...
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