The TRANSPOSE function has been around for a very long time and allows you, when working with formulas containing arrays, to transpose them from row to column or vice versa. A similar effect can be obtained using the Paste Special option. Since recently, Excel offered to users through Microsoft 365 subscription, has functions TOROW and TOCOL with which we can easily convert rows into columns and columns into rows…
The TEXTJOIN function is one of the newer ones, until Office 2019 exclusively available to Microsoft 365 subscribers, and it allows joining multiple strings into one by specifying them and then defining delimiters and the option to ignore those that are empty. Since august, the TEXTSPLIT function appeared, and its purpose is to split strings. How to use this function you will find out in the “recipe” that follows…
In the “Excel Kitchenette” blog so far you could have met many text manipulation functions. As of August 2022 (unofficially), and officially as of a few weeks ago, Microsoft 365 subscribers have some new functions at their disposal that increase productivity and can help you more easily to retrieve individual parts of a given text, before or after the delimiter.
Sometimes, while using Excel, you need to specify the date on which a particular month starts or ends in order to perform the desired calculation on that day. Although, with a little effort, these dates can be calculated in the traditional way, you will be greatly relieved by using the EOMONTH function. You will learn more about this function in the following text…
Writing Excel formulas with the help of Name Manager can be a demanding job. When you write simple formulas, you will still somehow manage. With complex formulas or changing existing ones, there is a high chance that you will make a mistake. The LAMBDA feature allows you to create your own functions as names added in the Name Manager, and to make this job easier, Microsoft has created an Excel add-in for creating complex formulas: Advanced Formula Environment.