It is the 4th day of Your week @ PHD and we have already posted some excellent array formulas, productivity hacks and other very useful tips.
Must read: part 1 of excel tips shared by readers | part 2 | part 3
Sticky Notes and Memorizing formula Syntax by Teyln
I have a Post-it note stuck near my monitor to help me remember the syntax of the INDEX-MATCH combo function. It says:
=INDEX(range,^,column#)
MATCH(what,where,FALSE)
The caret ^ in the Index function is where the Match function goes.
Find How Much Experience an Employee Has by Rajinikanth
Formula to find the Employee Experience, if the date Format is text like(Wednesday, March 10, 2004) :
Suppose employee joining date is Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Todays date is : =today()
then the formula to find the Employees Experience in the company like(No.of years, Months, Days) :
=((TEXT(DATEDIF(D11,E11,”y”),”0″)&” ” &”Years”)&”,”&(TEXT(DATEDIF(D11,E11,”ym”),”0″)&” ” &”Months”)&”,”&(TEXT(DATEDIF(D11,E11,”md”),”0″)&” ” &”Days”))
PHD’s note: The formula =TEXT((NOW()-E11)&"",”yy ""years"" m ""months"" dd ""days""") also works and is probably much simpler. It is mentioned in the 100 excel tips post.
Macro reduces the blood pressure by Michael
Perhaps it’s an artifact of my profession, or perhaps it’s a bias I formed back in the Lotus days.but I have never been really comfortable with Microsoft’s apparent distrust of recursion. True, non-convergent recursion can induce a migraine, but those “circular reference” alerts are almost as annoying.
So, for quite a while, I’ve had the following bit of VBA included in my Book.xlt/Book.xltm file:
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Iteration = True
End Sub
Voila! A pet peeve and annoyance resolved.
Thank you
Thanks to everyone for actively participating in the your week @ PHD. Donuts to Vishy, Rajinikanth, Barbara for sharing several tips. It has been very exciting and fun to learn new tricks from you. I hope you had as much fun learning.
Tomorrow we will have a open thread for all of you to chip in with more tips.
Also, Let me know if you want the your week to be a regular feature.
12 Responses to “Analyzing Search Keywords using Excel : Array Formulas in Real Life”
Very interesting Chandoo, as always. Personally I find endless uses for formulae such as {=sum(if(B$2:B$5=$A2,$C$2$C$5))}, just the flexibility in absolute and relative relative referencing and multiple conditions gives it the edge over dsum and others methods.
I've added to my blog a piece on SQL in VBA that I think might be of interest to you http://aviatormonkey.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/lesson-one-sql-in-vba/ . It's a bit techie, but I think you might like it.
Keep up the good work, aviatormonkey
Hi Chandoo,
You might find this coded solution I posted on a forum interesting.
http://www.excelforum.com/excel-programming/680810-create-tag-cloud-in-vba-possible.html
[...] under certain circumstances. One of the tips involved arranging search keywords in excel using Array Forumlas. Basically, if you need to know how frequent a word or group of keywords appear, you can use this [...]
@Aviatormonkey: Thanks for sharing the url. I found it a bit technical.. but very interesting.
@Andy: Looks like Jarad, the person who emailed me this problem has posted the same in excelforum too. Very good solution btw...
Realy great article
"You can take this basic model and extend it to include parameters like number of searches each key phrase has, how long the users stay on the site etc. to enhance the way tag cloud is generated and colored."
How would you go about doing this? I think it would need some VB
Hi,
I found the usage very interesting, but is giving me hard time because the LENs formula that use ranges are not considering the full range, in other words, the LEN formula is only bringing results from the respective "line" cell.
Using the example, when I place the formula to calculate the frequency for "windows" brings me only 1 result, not 11 as displayed in the example. It seems that the LEN formula using ranges is considering the respective line within the range, not the full range.
Any hint?
@Thiago
You have to enter the formula as an Array Formula
Enter the Formula and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter
Not just Enter
Thank you, Hui! I couldn't work out how this didn't work
is there a limit to the number of lines it can analyse.
Ie i am trying to get this to work on a list of sentances 1500 long.
@Gary
In Excel 2010/2013 Excel is only limited by available memory,
So just give it a go
As always try on a copy of the file first if you have any doubts
Apologies if I am missing something, but coudn't getting frequency be easier with Countif formula. Something like this - COUNTIF(Range with text,"*"&_cell with keyword_&"*")
Apologies if I missed, but what is the Array Formula to:
1. Analyze a list of URL's or a list of word phrases to understand frequency;
2. List in a nearby column from most used words to least used words;
3. Next to the list of words the count of occurrences.