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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.
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90% of Excel spreadsheets contain errors: Here’s how to fix yours

A common source of errors in Excel is "the gap"—a situation where you add new data to the bottom of a list, but your formulas ...

How to Easily Calculate Weighted Average in Excel

Learn how to calculate weighted averages using Excel for various financial metrics. Simplify complex calculations with our ...

Excel for Investors: Simulating Stock Prices for Better Insights

Learn to simulate stock prices with Excel and gain predictive power over market trends. Our step-by-step guide enhances your ...

Excel tip: Define cell names to cut errors and speed up your formulas

Using the example in our spreadsheet or a similar spreadsheet, highlight all the revenue numbers in the sheet and then in the ...

Excel not recognizing functions after reboot

If Excel is not recognizing functions after reboot, change calculation settings, disable Show Formula, run Excel ...

Build Faster Excel Workflows Using FILTER, IFS, XLOOKUP, and LET for Real-World Data

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...