With the functions I'll discuss here, you can make data cleanup much easier in Excel. They allow you to extract, style, split, and join text to get what you need without wasting hours doing it ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at an Excel spreadsheet, trying to figure out how to make sense of all the numbers and data? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually calculating groups, splitting dates, ...

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...

The SEQUENCE part creates a dynamic list of numbers (1, 2, 3...) that corresponds to the row index. For example, in the fifth ...

Note the column name, mpg, is unquoted. That feature hasn’t been handy, though, if you want to write your own R functions using the tidyverse. That’s because base R functions usually need quoted ...

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