Tag Archives: Excel

Excel functions that return references and new functions

Posted on 30/06/2020 by dougaj4

The MyOnlineTrainingHub blog recently posted an article on: Excel Functions that Return References As well as comprehensive advice on the use of OFFSET, INDEX, CHOOSE, IF and INDIRECT, it also covers the new functions XLOOKUP (Excel for Microsoft 365 only), and … Continue reading →

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XY Chart problems – 2

Posted on 16/06/2020 by dougaj4

The previous chart post (XY Chart problems – 1) looked at problems plotting charts with very short data ranges.  An associated problem is plotting XY charts with data with gaps (see When is an XY chart not an XY chart …? and … Continue reading →

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XY Chart problems – 1

Posted on 12/06/2020 by dougaj4

I have looked at problems with XY charts displaying as Line charts previously at: When is an XY chart not an XY chart …? and Plotting Charts With Gaps … The charts shown below. and also in the next post, can be … Continue reading →

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New sort functions and sorting to groups

Posted on 16/05/2020 by dougaj4

I first posted a user defined function (UDF) to sort spreadsheet or VBA data back in 2009.  Finally Microsoft have caught up, and Excel 365 subscribers now have two built in sort functions available: =SORT(array,[sort_index],[sort_order],[by_col]) =SORTBY(array, by_array1, [sort_order1], [by_array2, sort_order2],…) … Continue reading →

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Getting near matches from a list with Python

Posted on 19/04/2020 by dougaj4

To return a list of near matches from a long list of strings would be quite difficult in VBA (unless I’m missing something), but in Python it is very simple.  Here is the code for this operation, using pyxll to … Continue reading →

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