In this example, the goal is to display a Happy Birthday message when a birthday in a given cell matches the current date. The core of the problem is to compare the given birthday to the current date while ignoring the year. There are two main ways to approach the problem. The first way is to...Read more
In this example, the goal is to count birthdays by year. The source data is an Excel Table named data in the range C5:C16. The birthdays we want to count are in the Birthday column. In column E, the years of interest have been previously ...Read more
This article explains how to concatenate manually with the ampersand operator (&) and with the three Excel functions designed for concatenation: CONCATENATE, CONCAT, and TEXTJOIN.Read more
In this example, the goal is to filter data to show rows where dates have expired or will be expiring soon. In the table to the left, we have equipment that needs to be replaced every x months, where x appears in the "Months" column. The "Replaced" column shows the date equipment was...Read more
In this example, the goal is to create 4 times in the future at set intervals, based on a given start time. The intervals are 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, and 24 hours. If a start time is changed, the future dates should recalculate as needed.
In Excel,...Read more
This example is based on a fitness assessment where the goal is to award points based on how much weight was lifted at a given age. The solution described below is based on an INDEX and MATCH formula, but there are several tricky...Read more
Dates and times are just numbers in Excel, so you can use them in any normal math operation. However, by default, Excel will only display hours and minutes up to 24 hours. This means you might seem to "lose time" if you are adding up time that is more than 1 day.
In this example, the...Read more
In this example, one goal is to sum the numbers that appear in the range B5:B16. A second more challenging goal is to create the table of results seen in E7:F12. For convenience, data is the named range B5:B16.
To...Read more
In this example, the goal is to count numbers that contain leading zeros. In cell E5, we have the code "009875" and we want to count how many times this code appears in the range B5:B16. The challenge is that Excel can be finicky with leading zeros. Technically, the values in B5:B16 are...Read more
