In statistics, an analyst might want to find from which cell in a column some value started to show up. To do so, it is required to find the first
In a production environment, some cells in an excel sheet can sometimes be created with some ID or data inside a string. A customer might write the order requirements on
In order to track recurrence, it might be required to count specific characters in column in excel. Suppose you have a customer who repeats purchases, you might want to count
While connecting spreadsheet data with some other program, it might be required to keep the character case in a specific format. Unfortunately, other than functions, excel does not have a
While importing data from a tracker or some other program, we often encounter that the time data is imported as seconds. Converting the seconds to “hh mm ss” format is
For scheduling tasks, it is often needed to calculate the hours between two times. Calculating the difference between two values of time is easy using the minus (-) operator. However,
In project management, it is common to set deadlines for different parts of the project. While the start and end dates are usually shown in the chart, the time in
There are different kinds of data values in excel. When importing from other programs, or due to an issue in data entry, the numbers might be stored as text. But
Data analysis often requires us to parse texts in different ways. You might need to clean some data, extract some words, or validate a string. As there is no direct
