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The 3 best logical functions I always use in Excel

Make Excel evaluate your data for you.
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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6 Functions That Changed How You Use Microsoft Excel

The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...
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Gen-Z’s Work Values Are Different From Employers’. Here’s How Hiring Managers Can Meet in the Middle

A hiring manager shared something with me that explained the dilemma so many workplaces are facing today. He said, “Job interviews with young candidates have turned into a sparring contest where both ...
CNN

Ant queen gives birth to two different species

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

AI A professor lost two years of 'carefully structured academic work' in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: 'These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind' AI ...
ZDNet

Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...
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Excel + AI: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function directly into spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...
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Spartan Diarchy: The Unique Two-King System of Ancient Greece

The Spartan diarchy was a dual kingship ruling system with two kings from two different dynasties. Painting titled “The selection of infant Spartan,” by Giuseppe Diotti. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / ...
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Scientists Discover Unique Functions of Specialized Immune Cells

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other pathogens that enter the body. As a result, the body can defend itself ...
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Two ETFs that have beaten value stock indexes with this simple approach

Investors and money managers often assign stocks to value or growth camps. Value stocks tend to be those of mature companies that trade at relatively low ratios of price-to-earnings or to-book value.