Great question - what are your most used formulas in Excel? Mine's gotta be vlookup, IF and SUM. I'm pretty simple lol.

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In a fan of Xlookup. Took me a while to convert myself from vlookup but now it’s all I use.

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=BAHTTEXT() and =ROMAN()

If you're not using it in a daily basis, you're misusing Excel

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Yesss I use bahttext in every demo

And the pad Thai good too

OFFSET and SUMIFS, closely followed by MINIFS in conjunction with INDEX/ MATCH because I have to make Excel behave like a (normalized) relational database.

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IFS( or if i'm especially lazy IFERROR(. I wrap every formula with some sort of error handling as it looks unprofessional and #N/As bother me but they also break other formulas/powerquery.

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I have several that I use on the daily - SUBTOTAL, IF, XLOOKUP, TEXT - to name a few.

LET is up there for me now, but mostly because I wrap all my lookups with a LET to turn 0s into blanks.

Sumifs / countifs / index-match / unique

XLOOKUP & INDEX/MATCH > VLOOKUP

LAMBA, MAP, LET.

and DataTables (Alt-A-W-T) galore.

Even better putting lambdas in the name manager.

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