For users who are struggling with handling Microsoft Excel when trying to copy the same name multiple times without making it confusing, a simple procedure needs to be followed in order to count a ...

Microsoft Excel is capable of counting the number of cells that contain numbers, so if there was a time when you chose to manually count cells, then such days are over. That is because it is possible ...

Excel has a number of formulas that enable you to count the time between two dates. You can specify that you would like to count the difference in hours by adding a time specifier to your formula or ...

Counting duplicate values is a subject that begs definition. What constitutes a duplicate? Within Excel, you can have duplicate values within the same column or you can have duplicate records — a row ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

Whether you’re tracking sales, managing budgets, or analyzing trends, the challenge of pulling out meaningful insights from an Excel spreadsheet can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. But ...

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Excel is a powerful tool in the Microsoft Office suite of programs that allows you to create spreadsheets that can present a simple set of information or work through highly detailed and complicated ...

How to use the UNIQUE() function to return a count of unique values in Excel Your email has been sent The TechRepublic article How to create a sorted unique list in an Excel spreadsheet shows you how ...

If you want to count blank or empty cells in Excel and Google Sheets, here are the exact formulas you need to use. There are three ways to count blank or empty cells in any spreadsheet and here we ...