Excel IF Contains – 2514

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How can you test which cells in Excel contain text? Can you use an IF statement in Excel to find which cells contain certain text?

This video looks at COUNTIF, FIND, SEARCH, LOWER, SIGN, ISNUMBER, IFERROR functions.

Table of Contents
(0:00) Question
(0:22) Check for equality
(0:41) Wildcards fail in IF
(1:05) Using COUNTIF with wildcard
(1:39) Using FIND in Excel
(2:23) Adding SIGN, IFERROR, LOWER
(2:59) Using SEARCH in Excel
(3:25) Using ISNUMBER with SEARCH
(4:22) Excel IF contains solution
(4:44) Finding Contains using Filter
(5:11) Nancy Faust

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Table of Contents
(0:00) Excel shows formula not result
(0:04) Cell formatted as Text
(0:23) in Show Formulas mode

Excel KEEP Duplicates Delete Everything Else – 2513

Four answers today:
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Keep Duplicates Remove Everything Else
Which Row does Excel Keep during Remove Duplicates
Excel Get Duplicates Back
Formula to Remove Duplicates in Excel using UNIQUE and SORT functions
FILTER to keep only certain columns
Ctrl+z or Alt+Backspace to Undo

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Excel Duplicates – 5 Answers in 55 Seconds – #shorts

5 Excel topics in 55 seconds. In this video, I answer five common questions about duplicates in Excel. This video will address:
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Wildcards in Excel VLOOKUP XLOOKUP and SUMIFS – 2512

Mohammad asks: How do we vlookup part of a cell in part of another cell. For example, find “bank of america” in “you have received money from bank of america account”. This video shows how to solve this with VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, and SUMIFS.

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Why Excel SUM is Zero #Shorts

Why Excel SUM is zero.
Why Excel Sum function not working.
Why Excel SUM returns 0.
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Do you have a column of numbers that won’t sum in Excel? It is most likely that the numbers have been stored as text. Here are two quick ways to convert those text numbers and the numbers will then sum.

One frustrating behavior when this happens: =SUM(A2:A4) is zero, but =A2+A3+A4 calculates correctly. That is because the plus sign coerces a number out of the text, but the SUM function is Continue reading “Why Excel SUM is Zero #Shorts”

Two Excel Cells Look The Same Why Don’t They Match – 2511

Vineela is testing if two cells are the same with =IF(A2=B2. Both cells look exactly the same, but Excel is saying they don’t match! How to find why they don’t match.

Table of Contents
(0:00) Cells look alike
(0:20) =A2=B2
(0:33) Leading spaces
(0:45) F2 for trailing spaces
(1:20) Length & each character
(2:18) MID & ROW
(2:50) Five new books
(2:59) Get ASCII CODE
(3:20) Non-Breaking Space 160
(3:52) Formula to Fix
(4:50) Wrap-up

Can Excel Translate Languages – 2510

Can Excel translate languages?
Part 1:
There is a built-in Translation tool on the Review tab in Excel. It shows the answers in a task pane, but it does a bad job of getting those answers back to the Excel grid.

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Table of Contents
(0:00) Can Excel translate languages
(0:24) Translation on Review tab
(1:15) Paste back to Excel fails
(1:47) Five new books published
(3:00) Translating Continue reading “Can Excel Translate Languages – 2510”

Excel Mark Each Unique Value In A Different Color – 2508A

Automatically assign a cell color to each cell based on value. If there are ten unique values in a range, assign ten colors.

I had previously done this using VBA in an old video: “Assign A Unique Color Value”: Podcast #1718 from May 28, 2013.

In this video, I show how it is easier to use DOSE for Excel to color-code each name or value in a range.

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Excel Sum Or Count By Color – 2508

Total the numbers in the red cells. Average the cells with green font. While I have previously shown how to do this with VBA, it is now possible to quickly do this using a new add-in called DOSE for Excel.

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Excel Count Words Characters Or Sheets – 2508B

How can you count words in Excel? Instead of copying the data to Word, use you can use the DOSE for Excel add-in. In this video, I show you how to:
Count words in a range.
Count characters in a range.
Count worksheets in a workbook.

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