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You can extract some text or numbers form the right (of a product code for example) using the RIGHT function. Right(A2,4) extracts the 4 right characters from A2
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MS Excel has many text useful text functions such as LEFT. The Excel Left function extracts a specified number of characters form the left. This can be very useful if you only need the first 4 characters on the left =LEFT(A4,4)
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Excel 2010/2007 and older versions can examine and change text for you. Many people have product codes importing into Excel and then prepare reports but many times Excel does not work with the numbers. The first function to use is LEN - this tells you the length of the string ( as there may be blanks also). More training at http://www.actionebiz.com/exceltraining.htm

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In Excel 2010 there is a new Average Rank function. If 2 values are the same and come in at second place then they get 2.5 each (versus 2 & 2 for Rank function). If 4 values came in second they would get 3.5 each and no second, fourth or fifth place versus all getting 2 in Rank. Take a look at http://www.actionebiz.com/exceltraining.htm for more Excel 2010 training

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Do you know you can sort by colour in Excel 2010. Beware of subtle shades as that would lead to confusion but this feature work well with Conditional formatting. With Excel sort and colours applied by a conditional format you can see the data that is relevant to you
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In Excel 2010 there is a button on the Data Tab to "remove duplicates" (maybe a good ideas to copy the original list and compare). This can also be done in Excel 2007 or Excel 2003 - select the list and use Data - Filter - Advanced filter, this gives a dialogue box that you can copy the list to a new location and at the bottom is the check box "unique values only" (no filter is applied). many more topics at:
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In MS Excel 2010 (and also Excel 2007/2003) it is possible to lock some cells which means people can edit and update certain cells but not others. So the Excel file can be sent out and people will not ruin the format. Take a look at MS Excel 2010 Training:http://www.actionebiz.com/exceltraining.htm for more training

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MS Excel Trainer
Toronto Mississauga