The TRANSLATE function became part of Excel in July 2024, and recently we have another useful function that you can use to detect the language in which a text is written. It’s a new DETECTLANGUAGE function, and you can use it in conjunction with the TRANSLATE function.
When you enter decimal numbers, depending on the Region settings, you will use a decimal point or a comma. In most cases, this is done once, and we don’t deal with this topic anymore. However, it may happen in practice that you import data, most often from a CSS file, where different characters are used to separate decimals and groups than those you use by your local settings. In this case, use the NUMBERVALUE function…
In one of the previous “recipes” we talked about how to use the Excel GROUPBY function. On that occasion, you could find out how to use it in one of the standard scenarios of its application, and now you will learn how to use it in a slightly more advanced way. To begin with, how you can group by two or more dimensions, and then how to display percentages, determine the depth of the calculation, and so on.
Sometimes, when creating report, you need to display the values as a percentage. You can calculate percentages manually, and recently Excel also offers a PERCENTOF function to make this process easier. If you use functions such as GROUPBY or PIVOTBY, you can also use this function to calculate percentages when grouping values. Let’s see how we can use it!
Regular expressions are a programming term that refers to a sequence of characters used to define a search criterion within a given text. Recently, Excel has gained several functions for working with regular expressions, and we can also use them as an argument to the XMATCH function and the XLOOKUP function as an additional search criterion.