Blog Posts on Different Topics of Power Query in Excel
This blog post is about different ways to find the ‘Most Repeated Number or Text’ in a data set. Formula to find the most repeated Number The MODE function in Excel is designed to return the most repeated number from a numeric dataset. An example with vertical data ranges. Another example with a 2 dimensional…
Excel with Microsoft 365 has a PDF connector which enables us to extract data from PDF files. The beauty of this method is that the extracted data will automatically update for the changes in the source data. Let’s see how to extract the Tables in a PDF file using Power Query in Excel. Following is…
This blog post is about 3 different methods to extract the decimal part of a Number. TRUNC function to extract the Decimal part of a Number The TRUNC function in Excel truncates a number to the given precision. The formula =TRUNC(4.159) will return 4. The following formula will extract the decimal part of the number…
In this tutorial, I will show you 5 different ways to Extract only Numbers from a list of Strings. Following is a Table containing Text as well as Numeric Values and we will be using this data for explaining the different methods. FILTER Function to extract Numbers The ISNUMBER function in Excel can be used…
Following are 3 different methods to reverse text strings in Excel. Dynamic Array Formula to reverse Text The following formula combines the MID, TEXTJOIN, LEN and the SEQUENCE function to reverse the text string supplied into it. =TEXTJOIN(“”,1,MID(B3,SEQUENCE(LEN(B3),,LEN(B3),-1),1)) Let’s see what happens when we supply the text ‘Hana’ into the above formula. =TEXTJOIN(“”,1,MID(“Hana”,SEQUENCE(LEN(“Hana”),,LEN(“Hana”),-1),1)) Length of…
Following are 3 different ways to segregate Positive and Negative values from list of numbers in Excel. MAX and MIN Function to separate Positive and Negative values The MAX function in Excel will return the largest among 2 or more numbers supplied into it. This property of MAX function is used below to check whether…
In this blog post I will explain 3 different methods to find the Count of each Item in the list shown below. The methods include the use Pivot Table, Power Query and Formulas. Note that I have converted the list into an official Excel Table and named it as ABCD. Dynamic Array Formula to find…
This Excel tutorial is about 3 different methods to find the common values between two Lists or Tables in Excel. Here we have 2 lists of World’s Billionaires, one from the year 2015 and other one from 2020. Following are different methods to find the Names that are present in both lists. MATCH function to…
Following are 4 different methods to find the Sum of first 50 natural numbers using Excel. Formula using SUM and SEQUENCE function The following formula will return the sum of numbers from 1 to 50. =SUM(SEQUENCE(50,1,1,1)) For the sum of first 75 numbers, =SUM(SEQUENCE(75,1,1,1)) Formula using SUMPRODUCT and ROW function Formula that combines SUMPRODUCT and…
Following are 4 different methods in Excel to find the ‘Day Name’ corresponding to a ‘Date’. 1. TEXT Function to find Day Name from Date The TEXT function in Excel can be used to return the corresponding Day Name, Month or Year from a Date. The following formula will return Tuesday, the Day name corresponding to the…