What are the formulas you wish Excel had ?

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Here is a list of formulas I wish MS Excel had. Alas, we need to build some work-arounds to solve them though.

  • CONCATENATE (range): that can take a range of cells and churn out a big text combining all of them. Of course, here a VBA UDF alternative to concatenate range of cells.
  • SPLIT (text, delimiter, part): that can take a text and split it based on the specified delimiter. We will have to use a formula based alternative to split text
  • UNIQUE(list, number): that takes a list and returns the unique items based on the number specified. Well, for the time being we can get unique items with formulas.
  • ISBETWEEN(number, first, second): to check whether “number” is between “first” and “second”. You can do this using AND() formula like AND(number>=first, number<=second).
  • FINDLAST(findthis, text): that can find the last occurrence of a particular text in another text. I don’t know any good formula for this.

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