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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the Data tab on the ribbon, and created the rule in the Data Validation dialog ...
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I stopped consolidating sheets by hand because Excel’s INDIRECT function does all the work for me

Sometimes, you need to pull data from multiple sheets and analyze it in a summary sheet or dashboard. You can try copying and pasting what you need into one sheet and manually tweaking it, but it's a ...

Stop Using Basic Excel Drop-Downs : 5 Advanced Tricks For Dynamic Drop-Downs

Discover 5 advanced Excel drop-down techniques to create dynamic, auto-updating lists and improve your data management skills.
The Constructor

Importance of Excel for Quantity Surveyors

In today’s competitive construction environment, time and accuracy matter more than ever. For quantity surveyors (QS), spreadsheets remain one of the most accessible, flexible, and cost-effective ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER ... The delimiter is the marker that separates out the data you want to split. The last four arguments ...
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The New Copilot Function Vastly Improves Microsoft Excel, Part 2

Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets.

This Simple Excel Trick Makes Dynamic Filters Update Themselves in Seconds

Learn how DROP, REDUCE, LAMBDA, and STACK make Excel arrays update automatically, split text, and stack filtered results ...
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How Marketing Data Validation Is the Key to Successful Campaigns

Marketing is built on one essential element: accurate information. As marketers, we're always collecting and analyzing data to understand customer behaviors, preferences, and trends. That information ...
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Larry Ellison Says AI Needs Private Data — Palantir Says 'Told You So'

"If you look at ChatGPT, Anthropic, Llama, Grok — they're all trained on all of the data on the internet," Ellison said during Oracle's recent event. "But for these models to reach their peak value, ...
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Explanations of USDe ‘depeg’ on Binance focus on coordinated attack, oracles

The USDe synthetic dollar depegged on the Binance crypto exchange due to an internal oracle issue and not because of the underlying collateral, the Ethena protocol, or the token itself, according to ...
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What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure. The outages ...