Top 10 Most Powerful Microsoft Excel Functions for Data Analysts

Microsoft Excel includes quick stats via Analysis ToolPak; mean, median, and standard deviation are generated for selected ...
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How to us Excel REGEX functions to easily extract, clean and format data

Recently Microsoft has introduced a game-changing set of functions in it’s Excel spreadsheet software that harness the power of Regular Expressions (REGEX) to streamline data extraction, cleaning, and ...
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Quickly clean data with Excel’s TRIMRANGE and trim references

Q. How do the TRIMRANGE function and trim references in Excel work? A. Excel’s TRIMRANGE function and trim references help users quickly tidy up datasets. This makes for a cleaner, easier-to-follow, ...
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Clean Up Data Effortlessly With Excel's New TRIMRANGE Function

You shouldn’t need five steps to clean a column. Or a script. Or a headache. Excel’s new TRIMRANGE function quietly solves a huge pain point. And if you work with imported or user-entered data, this ...
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5 Excel functions that make data cleanup feel unfairly easy

Data cleanup in Excel is common and often one of the most tedious and time-consuming tasks. I've had to do it when preparing reports, analyzing imported datasets, or consolidating information. If ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...