5 Powerful Techniques for Building Advanced Formulas

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If you work with formulas in Excel, or want to learn how, this is the tutorial for you.

This Excel tutorial introduces you to 5 powerful formula building techniques, shows you how to use them, and then shows you how they can be used in a real-world example that combines all of the illustrated techniques.

This tutorial is meant to take you from abstract concept to useful formula, and do so in a way that allows you to apply it to your unique situation and requirements.

The 5 Topics/Techniques Covered in this tutorial:

  • Generate Lists with a Formula.
  • Create Elastic Ranges.
  • Increment a value for every row.
  • Make dynamic range references using INDIRECT().
  • Use True/False to eliminate values from a list.

Once these topics are explained, I then build the master formula that combines all of these features and shows you how they can be useful.


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