Dave Bruns

The key to solving this problem is to realize that the solution requires a specific kind of rounding. We can't just round to the "nearest" .45 or .95 value. In fact, the first step is to round up to the nearest half dollar (.50). The second step is to subtract 5 cents ($0.05...Read more

The goal in this example is to return the minimum value that is unique, i.e. the minimum value that occurs only once in the data.

The UNIQUE function, new in Excel 365, will return a unique list of values from a set of data. By default, this is a list of...Read more

Note: this formula depends on values in the Time column (C), and values in the Start and End columns (F, G) being valid Excel times.

The data is in an Excel table called table. By...Read more

In this example, the goal is to extract the first 3 values or the last 3 values from the named range data (B5:B15). We also want to exclude any empty cells from our results. In the worksheet shown the formula in cell D5 is:

=INDEX(FILTER(...Read more

This example is set up in two parts for clarity: (1) a formula to determine the top 3 amounts for each month and (2) a formula to retrieve the client name for each of the top 3 monthly amounts.

Note there is no actual rank in the source data. Instead, we are using the LARGE function to...Read more

Although FILTER is more commonly used to filter rows, you can also filter columns, the trick is to supply an array with the same number of columns as the source data. In this example, we construct the array we need with boolean logic, also called Boolean...Read more

In the example shown, we want to test if all values in each row are equal. To do this, we use an expression that compares the value in the first column (B5) to the rest of the columns (C5:F5):

B5=C5:F5

Because we are comparing one cell...Read more

The MINIFS function returns the smallest numeric value that meets supplied criteria, and the MAXIFS function returns the largest numeric value that meets supplied criteria.

Like COUNTIFS...Read more

In this example, the goal is to count unique values that meet one or more specific conditions. In the example shown, the formula used in cell H7 is:

=SUM(--(LEN(UNIQUE(FILTER(B6:B15,C6:C15=H6,"")))>0))

At the core, this formula...Read more

In this example, the goal is to use XLOOKUP to find the first "red" or "pink" record in the data as shown. All data is in an Excel Table named data in the range B5:E14. This means the formulas below use structured...Read more