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  • Formula to Access a List of Values Interspersed with Zeros or Blanks

    Today’s author is Bob Umlas, an Excel MVP since 1994. This tip is a formula which enables you to access a list of values interspersed with zeros or blanks and pick up only the non-zero values in the same sequence they’re listed. It’s better to illustrate. Suppose you have this list in A1:A14: …and you want to produce this list: The following formula entered in E1 and filled down to E6 does the trick. It’s an array formula which means that you must press Ctrl+Shift+Enter after entering the formula...
  • Hidden and Invisible Objects

    Today’s author, Ben Rampson, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about cleaning up spreadsheets. I often receive files demonstrating issues customers are experiencing with Excel. Recently I have noticed a common problem in some of these files that impacts the file’s performance and size: hidden and invisible objects. When gathering data in Excel it is common to start with information found in a variety of sources, frequently lists or tables located on the Internet. Customers often copy and...
  • Repeating a Set of Data

    I thought this would be interesting to share to see how other Excel folks might have solved this problem. I got a question recently from a customer asking how to automatically take a set of values in one column, say: 1000 5000 600 and repeat each value, say, 4 times in the next column, so that it looks something like this: 1000 1000 1000 1000 5000 5000 5000 5000 ... and so on. My response: the only way to truly do this automatically is to write a custom macro. However, if you can suffer through a...
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