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3 must-know custom data validation formulas for preventing errors in Excel

Block bad data, duplicates, and incorrect dates with these custom rules.
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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

Data validation in Excel lets you restrict what can be entered into a cell, whether whole numbers, decimals, dates, or a certain number of characters. However, one of the most powerful capabilities of ...
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How to turn complex formulas into easy-to-use custom functions using LAMBDA() in Excel

How to turn complex formulas into easy-to-use custom functions using LAMBDA() in Excel Your email has been sent LAMBDA functions are new to Microsoft Excel. With LAMBDA functions, you can turn a ...
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How to Create Custom Formatting in Excel

Sometimes when I’m working with an Excel worksheet and I want a cell to look a certain way, I run into what appears to be a limitation in the program. It might be trying to enter product numbers with ...
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How to force a consistent phone number format in Microsoft Excel

How to force a consistent phone number format in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Combine an Excel custom format with data validation and remove the pressure ...
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Excel filters: How to use number, text and date filters to extract only the data you need

Excel spreadsheet databases work because users can filter the data inside these workbooks. Filters are conditions you specify in databases and spreadsheets to extract only the precise, requested ...