When we create a sales report, sometimes we want to show the values in their original form, and sometimes they can be recalculated values, such as thousands or millions. Such a report is created in a very simple way using the Data Validation option, which allows you to select the desired unit size, and recalculate values with help of the Excel LAMBDA function. Let’s create a report like this with a chart to visualize the data.
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.
When creating business reports, there is often a requirement that they should be displayed in multiple currencies, that is, the user can choose the currency in which a report is displayed. This can be achieved in several ways and one of them, very elegant, is with the help of the LAMBDA function. In this “recipe” you will find out how you can use it to display sales reports in different currencies.
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.
The TRIMRANGE function allows you to remove blank rows or columns before, after, and before and after a set of values within a specified range of cells. It makes it easier to work with cells that are not empty, but recently there is a much simpler syntax for clearing a given range, which is by specifying a dot before the “:” symbol that separates the beginning and end of the range.