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Excel's UNIQUE function can't skip columns—unless you use this trick

Nest CHOOSECOLS inside UNIQUE to extract non-adjacent columns, and use INDIRECT for interactive header dropdowns.

Federal prosecutors charge 26 men with alleged conspiracy to manipulate college basketball games

The scheme, according to federal prosecutors, involved two men indicted this fall for their alleged role in an NBA gambling ...
MUO on MSN

This is the Excel feature I've been waiting 10 years for

If you've ever wished Excel could handle text patterns the way Python or JavaScript does, these functions deliver exactly ...

Build Faster Excel Workflows Using FILTER, IFS, XLOOKUP, and LET for Real-World Data

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...
CNET

How to Fix Photo Distractions Using Apple's AI-Based Clean Up Tool

Did an unintended bystander wander into the one family photo where everyone is looking at the camera? Here's how to erase them in the Photos app on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Jeff Carlson writes about ...
Newsweek

FDA Says Retailers Didn’t Remove Recalled Formula Fast Enough

Botulism is a potentially fatal illness, and the fact that tainted formula was not promptly removed adds urgency for systemic improvements across the retail and public health sectors. The Centers for ...
New York Post

Walmart, Target, Kroger failed to remove recalled baby formula linked to ‘potentially fatal’ illness: FDA

Federal regulators slapped four of the nation’s biggest retailers with warning letters after investigators found recalled ByHeart baby formula tied to a botulism outbreak still sitting on store ...
Las Vegas Sun

How Formula One teams make the numbers add up to a successful race

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...
JournalofAccountancy

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 ...
GamesRadar+

Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing ...

Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer says AI-generated writing is a "3/10 at best" and "doesn't" actually help game development RPGs Baldur's Gate 3 director u-turns on the use of AI art in ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: New policy removes pre-installed Microsoft Store apps

Microsoft now allows IT administrators to remove pre-installed Microsoft Store apps (also known as in-box apps) using a new app management policy. This policy is now available for Windows 11 ...