How to count words? There is no longer a need to send telegrams, and the need to count words seldom arises. However, this is a nice opportunity to try out how to use the TEXTSPLIT function in combination with some other Excel functions. Who knows, maybe this will be useful to you one day? In honor of Pink Floyd, let’s count the words in the song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”.
It is a common practice in domestic retail outlets to keep a large number of items under one code. In fact, it is one item, but its additional attributes are not taken into account, such as: color, size, design, season … Consequently, the stocks are incorrect. How to form item codes in such a way that, within the code itself, all its attributes are taken into account? We will use permutations!
So far, you have been able to read several “recipes” on this blog which were about Data Validation and lists. Office365 (Microsoft365) subscription users have access to dynamic array functions that easily handle variable-length lists. But what should users with an older version of Excel do? In the text that follows, you will learn how to solve this problem with the help of the named ranges, OFFSET and COUNTA functions.
Aggregation of data is a process that we’re implicitly performing every time we drag a reporting dimension in the field Values. However, when you create complex reports, it is useful to use functions for aggregation (SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT) to create measures that will be used in the report. Once thought out measures may be used as a building block to create complex DAX expressions.
Aggregation is a term that signifies unification and calculation. It combines one or more data sets, which are given as function arguments, for performing a mathematical operation. This may be: summing up a series of data, counting, averaging, calculating the minimum or maximum value of a given set of numbers… Aggregate functions are very commonly used and should know them well.