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Stop writing nested IFs and IFS formulas in Excel: Use SWITCH instead

Messy Excel formulas are more than just an eyesore—they're harder to maintain. Every repeated cell reference and tangled parenthesis makes your work difficult to audit, edit, and share. That's why you ...
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I found an Excel function that replaced three nested IFs I'd been writing for years

For many of us, before we’ve even finished thinking through a problem, we’ve already started writing IFs. Nested Excel IF statements work; they’re familiar, and they’ve been part of Excel for as long ...
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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 ...
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5 Excel Custom Functions That Solve Everyday Problems

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, wishing it could just do *that one thing* to make your work easier? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually replacing text, trying to filter data with ...