Consolidated list of products

Imagine this scenario: you register customers in an Excel spreadsheet, specifying their ID and then the products they use. Which customer uses which products? One way to get this answer is to create a pivot table, and then display customers, products and the number of products. The disadvantage of this report is that pivot tables always aggregate data. What if we only need a table with customer ID in one column and a consolidated list of products in another?

Don’t stay without text

When someone tells you, “I’m left without text” this usually means a state of shock and confusion. Ignoring text related functions will not leave you in shock, but you will certainly be deprived of some useful tools. These functions are numerous, and in the “recipe” that follows I’ll describe these that allow merging of two or more texts into one, converting text to number or number in text, determining the length of text …