Wonderful discussion - thank you for all of your inputs into this.
- What if I need to extract every 3rd value from a given range?
Also a comment to Narayan/xlstime - what's "zzzzz"? Why does it work? Not to offend anyone, but it seems to be the simplest way...admittedly the other solutions...
This is lovely! it works great, I m so happy! I wish I knew what it does :) What would you recommend to study to be able to come up with such solutions? :) Thanks
Dear members,
I was wondering if there is a shortcut to select the contents of a cell, and this is very important, when you inside the cell. For example, I have a cell with a long strings of words and I could press F2 and Shift + <-- to select the contents, but when I have many cells to go...
Dear members,
I have a problem - I am trying to extract a value from a range of cells and I would like you to help me with the formula. I want to take the range of 5 cells (see the attached spreadsheet) in which only one has a value (and others do not) and extract that value into another cell...
I can't thank all of you enough here, it is very clear now!
@ Deb: Could not agree more, this is amazing.
Totally off topic, has anyone taken the financial modelling class offered here or saw some reviews by those who did? Thanks for help.
Thanks a lot for your help Hui and Deb!
@deb: I have to say that this is rather subtle, I am confused. What is our divisor? I mean is not anything divided by 1 gives the same number? Sorry if I missing something very basic.
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Hi I have a problem with figuring an appropriate formula to subtract time. Suppose I have a time in mm:ss format showing 05:01 (meaning 5 minutes and 1 second) in A1. In A2, the column "Slow", need to have a formula, if the time in A1 is less than [specified time] say, 2 min, then return "No"...