Examples The formulas below use CHOOSE to return the 2nd and 3rd values from a list: Above, “blue” is the second value, and “green” is the third value. In the example shown in the screenshot, the formula in cell C5 is: CHOOSE will not retrieve values from a range or array constant. For example, the formula below will return a #VALUE error: This happens because the index number is out of range....

Examples The formula below returns 3 characters starting at the 5th character: This formula will extract 3 characters starting at character 16: If num_chars is greater than remaining characters, MID will all remaining characters: MID can extract text from numbers, but the result is text: Related functions Use the MID function to extract from the middle of text. Use the LEFT function to extract text from the left side of a text string and the RIGHT function to extract text starting from the right side of text....

No Mac equivalent. Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.

A nice feature of this shortcut is that is leaves the cell in “edit mode” after the copy, so you can immediately edit. This can be handy when you want to copy a value from above and adjust the result manually. For example, if you need to enter a set of invoice numbers that are similar, but not necessarily sequential. Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa....

Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.

Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.

Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.

Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.

Examples The TIME function can interpret units in larger increments. For example, both of the formulas below return a result of 2 hours: However, when total time reaches 24 hours, the TIME function will “reset” to zero. In this way, TIME behaves like a 24 hour clock that resets when it crosses midnight. Notably, TIME will not handle numeric inputs larger 32,767. For example, even though there are 86,400 seconds in a day, the following formula (which represents 12 hours) will fail with a #NUM!...

where “complete” is the named range B5:B15. Note: this is an array formula and must be entered with control + shift + enter. Here, the MATCH function is used to compare all “complete” values against the partial list. The named range “complete” is used for lookup values, and the partial list is used as the lookup array. Notice, however, that the partial list is entered as an expanding range that ends “one cell above” the formula cell....

In the example shown, the formula in C5 is: For example, DATE returns April 9, 2016 with the following arguments: There is no 100th day in January, so DATE simple moves forward 100 days from January 1 and figures returns the correct date. The formula on this page takes advantage of this behavior. The year assumed to be 2015 in this case, so 2015 is hard-coded for year, and 1 is used for month....

The result is 1, since January 31 is in the first quarter. ROUNDUP formula solution In the example shown, the formula in cell C5 is: The ROUNDUP function works like the ROUND function, except that ROUNDUP will always round numbers 1-9 up to a given number of digits, supplied as the num_digits argument. In this case, because we want to get back an integer, we use zero for num_digits. Working from the inside out, the MONTH function first extracts the month as a number between 1-12, then divides this number by 3: The result is then rounded up to the nearest whole number using the ROUNDUP function: The result is 1, since 0....

The problem There are several ways to group times in Excel. If you just need to group times by the hour, a pivot table is very quick and easy. If you need to group times into other equal buckets of multiple hours (i.e. 3 hours, 4 hours, etc.) a nice solution is to use the FLOOR function. However, if you need to group times into unequal buckets, you need to take a more custom approach....

Here we have a list of real estate properties. Let’s say we want to give this list to someone else, but without the data in columns E through I. We can easily hide these columns; but if we then select all the properties, copy, and paste into another worksheet, we get all of the data, including the data in columns that are hidden. This is because Excel selects both visible and hidden cells by default....

Let’s take a look. Let’s start off by copying a set of numbers in General format across our table, and then apply the default currency format to the columns C through H. Now let’s select cells in column D and check the options available for currency in the Format Cells dialog box. Like Number format, the Currency format provides options for decimal places and handling negative numbers. However, it does not provide an option for a thousandths separator—this is always enabled for Currency....

Let’s look at three examples. In this first example we have some items listed with a numeric color code. We want to bring these names into column D. Now, since I already have a table here, I could just use VLOOKUP and reference the table. I get the lookup_value from column C; the table is the range H5:I7, locked with F4; the column is 2, and I need to use FALSE to force an exact match....

In this case, we only want to take action if the date in question is Monday. To test, we use this expression inside the IF function: If the logical expression returns TRUE, we know the date is a Monday, so we subtract 3 to “roll back” to Friday. If the expression returns FALSE, we simply return the original date. Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa....

This formula will return TRUE if a cell contains any one of the strings passed into it. Because it is built with the SEARCH function, it automatically performs partial matching and supports wildcards. The first step in creating a custom LAMBDA function is to verify the logic needed with a Excel standard formula. This LAMBDA formula is based on a Excel formula created with three functions: SUMPRODUCT, ISNUMBER, and SEARCH: Read a detailed description here....

The StripTrailingChars function is designed to accept two input parameters: str is the text from which to remove trailing characters, and char is the trailing character to remove. In the example shown, StripTrailingChars is configured to remove the characters seen in column C from the text seen in column B. These characters will only be removed when they are “trailing”, i.e. when they appear at the end of the string....

One of the most powerful ways to extend the functionality of dynamic array formulas is to nest one function inside another. To illustrate, let’s look at an example based on the SORT and FILTER functions. Here we have data that shows over 300 of the largest cities by population in the United States. This data is in an Excel Table called “Table1”. We have rank, city, state, population, and percent change....