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Microsoft Excel has new functions for importing text files and CSV data

The new IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions are now available in the Microsoft Excel Beta Channel, if you're running version ...

Good news for Excel users: You can now import data from CSV files without Power Query

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is ...
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Excel's UNIQUE function can't skip columns—unless you use this trick

Nest CHOOSECOLS inside UNIQUE to extract non-adjacent columns, and use INDIRECT for interactive header dropdowns.