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Category: Standard functions

Standard functions that comes with Excel, plain single functions

Calculate above and below me

Posted on April 9, 2026 By ANmar No Comments on Calculate above and below me
Calculate above and below me

Calculating average of the column in a cell inside that same column Getting average of what is above me and what is below me in my same column in one of the cells DS2 has 1 to use as Average, anything else to get regular number from some calculation … PH2 = IF($DS2=1, IFERROR(AVERAGE(PH$1:PH1,PH3:PH$110),”N/A”), “Other…

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Average, IF, IFERROR, Logical, Standard functions, Statistical

Middle name + 1st name

Posted on February 3, 2024 By ANmar
Middle name + 1st name

Get the initial (middle name) from a triple name in a cell.
C4 The cell contains the triple name separated with spaces.
=LEFT(C4,1) & "." & MID(C4, SEARCH(" ", C4, 1) + 1, 1) & "." & MID(C4, SEARCH(" ", C4, SEARCH(" ", C4, 1) + 1) + 1, 1) & "."

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Basic Math, Formulas - combined functions, LEFT, MID, SEARCH, Standard functions, Texts and Strings

LastSunday, LastSaturday

Posted on October 17, 2023 By ANmar
LastSunday, LastSaturday

Get the date of the most recent SUNDAY for a specific date:D12 is the cell containing the date =D12 – WEEKDAY(D12) + 1 While Saturday is easier Get the date of the most recent SATURDAY for a specific date: =D12 – WEEKDAY(D12)

Date and Time, Standard functions, WEEKDAY

Jan8 date format

Posted on April 24, 2023 By ANmar
Jan8 date format

Format a date in shortest format possible indicating how many days have passed (Past date)

If date1-date2 < 8 Sat, Fri, …
If date1-date2 < 350 Dec24, Jan4, Aug14
Else 2020Feb4

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AND, Date and Time, Formulas - combined functions, IF, Logical, Standard functions, TEXT, Texts and Strings, TODAY

Walking Columns

Posted on January 14, 2023 By ANmar
Walking Columns

An easy way to scroll through set of data in a graphic way without graphs.

A-pure-formula xlsx workbook. These were done using formulas, conditional formatting, and ActiveX control.

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ActiveX controls, Basic Math, COLUMN, Conditional Formatting, Formulas - combined functions, IF, INT, Logical, Lookup and References, Math and Trig, Non-functions, OFFSET, ROW, Standard functions

Unix DateTime Number

Posted on January 6, 2023 By ANmar
Unix DateTime Number

Convert Date/time number from regular number to Unix DateTime Number.

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Basic Math, DATE, Date and Time, Standard functions

Get 3rd Wednesday of month

Posted on November 15, 2022 By ANmar
Get 3rd Wednesday of month

This was an interesting request.

Needing to get the date of 3rd Wednesday for a given month, automatically, using pure Excel functions.

So, sharing here on what is the formula and how to get there.

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Basic Math, CHOOSE, DATE, Date and Time, Formulas - combined functions, Lookup and References, MONTH, Standard functions, WEEKDAY, YEAR

Repeated Offset

Posted on September 19, 2022 By ANmar
Repeated Offset

I needed to have an offset of columns to be repeated every 12 months.

This is part of a project, we needed to calculate the coefficient of sales prediction based on the month number, we do have coefficient saved in another table that repeated every year (12 months).

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Basic Math, COLUMN, Formulas - combined functions, IFERROR, INT, Logical, Lookup and References, Math and Trig, OFFSET, Standard functions

Sorting with functions only

Posted on September 5, 2022 By ANmar
Sorting with functions only

This one is similar to http://xlfxs.com/sort-list-using-functions/ where we use some controls here that make it more user-friendly.

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CHOOSE, Formulas - combined functions, LARGE, Lookup and References, MATCH, Math and Trig, ROW, SMALL, Standard functions, VLOOKUP

6174 Kaprekar’s constant

Posted on September 2, 2022 By ANmar
6174 Kaprekar’s constant

This is the spreadsheet to prove this constant. When all roads lead to Kaprekar

Just enter any 4 digits number in D3 and watch roads walk you 6174

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Basic Math, Formulas - combined functions, Standard functions, TEXT, Texts and Strings, VALUE

Cuts string of list of items

Posted on August 17, 2022 By ANmar
Cuts string of list of items

An old lesson to one of my early classes to show how can we cut a string having list of items into its parts. (At least 1st three parts) using formulas only.

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Formulas - combined functions, LEFT, MID, SEARCH, Standard functions, Texts and Strings

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