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Dynamically transpose data after ignoring blank cells

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In range A7:A15, assume the following values A, S , empty cell, empty cell, R, A, W, A, SD.  Starting from cell B17, transpose data to the right (ignoring the blank cells).  Therefore, in range B17:F17, the result should be A, S, R, W SD. Solution for MS Excel 2010 and higher versions If you […]

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List down most frequently appearing names in descending order of frequency

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Given a list of names in a worksheet range, one may want to pull out, the most frequently appearing names in descending order of frequency, to another range.  Furthermore, one may want to provide an additional date criteria as well. You may refer to my solution in this workbook.

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VLOOKUP() function to work only on visible cells of filtered range

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The VLOOKUP() function returns data from a lookup_array irrespective of the filter setting of the lookup_array.  To make the lookup_array of the VLOOKUP() function work only on the visible cells of a filtered range, refer to this workbook.

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Summarise data from multiple sheets with multiple conditions

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Assume there are three worksheets, one each for 2008, 2009 and 2010.  On each sheet there are two columns for Account code and Account description.  Thereafter there are 12 columns (one for each month).  Values inside the matrix represent amount spent on a specific item in a specific month. On the P&L worksheet, a user will provide the […]

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Extract data based on customer specific dimensions

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Depending upon customer requirements specified for width, thickness and length os material, extract a report showing all records from the master stock-list which meets the requirements. The question and solution have been elaborately explained in this workbook.

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Compute Day Sales Outstanding (DSO)

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A financial concept, Day Sales Outstanding (DSO), is a measure of the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue  after a sale has been made.   For further clarification, read here. Herein, i have presented the solution for two different data layouts.  Further, Layout 2 has two further divisions – one for computing […]

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Determine weekday after factoring in user specified holidays

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Given a certain beginning date and specified number of days, one may want to determine the ending date (beginning date plus number of days).  When determining the ending date, the following two cases should be considered Case 1 Holidays are: 1. Sundays only; and 2. User specified public holidays Case 2 Holidays user specified public holidays […]

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Dynamically extract unique values with multiple conditions

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Assume there are two columns with data repeated in all both columns.  One may wan to extract the unique text values from a specific column based on conditions specified by end-user. Depending upon the version of MS Excel which you are using, there could be two ways to solve this problem Solution for MS Excel 2010 and higher versions […]

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Dynamically extract unique values with no conditions

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Given a single column with duplicates appearing, one may want to dynamically extract unique values to another range. Depending upon the version of MS Excel which you are using, there could be two ways to solve this problem Solution for MS Excel 2010 and higher versions If you are using the Power Query add-in, then a […]

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