Your favorite formula (or combination) that you get surprised someone didn’t know. E.g I like using SUMIFs and surprised people still use SUMIF. Also SUMPRODUCT another favorite one of mine.

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Conditional sumproduct using the -- operator (boolean)

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Awesome thanks for that! Super useful :)

IFs

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Love a good vlookup

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Also low key I LOVE =LEFT or RIGHT or TRIM. Do a lot of text transformation myself also

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Thoughts on PowerQuery?

Conditional formatting - - > highlight duplicates

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Nested IF statements...they can be simple and complex.

That’s what I said. Not sure if many people know about this one.

FORECAST !!

That one is gonna make life so much easier for FP&A

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Sumifs with index match

Yep that is great, but sumifs with xlookup even better

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TEXTJOIN

Great one !

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