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 ...

Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...
Global Investigative Journalism Network

Data Cleaning Tools and Techniques for Non-Coders

Understanding, organizing, and validating data directly affects the accuracy of stories. New tools make cleaning accessible ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Microsoft Excel isn't a database, please stop using it like one

Excel offers no such constraint. If someone is determined to enter bad data, they can simply paste values over a validated ...
MUO on MSN

The strangest Excel functions you'll never use

D espite its age, Excel continues to evolve with new functions being added over time. There are newer better Excel functions ...
News9

Are there options to remove gastrointestinal cancers without surgery? Endoscoping submucosal dissection explained

Doctors are using endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) to remove some early gastrointestinal tumors without making external cuts, a shift that can speed recovery and keep organs intact when cancers ...
Reuters

China releases new rules on personal data exports

BEIJING, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Chinese regulators on Thursday released new rules on certifying cross-border transfers of personal information, requiring "non-critical information infrastructure operators ...
WAVY-TV

Major ruling allows Norfolk police to access Flock camera data without warrant

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A major ruling from the Virginia Court of Appeals pertaining to a Norfolk case. Documents show the Appeals Court ruled that Norfolk police do not need a search warrant to access ...
Reuters

Fed still poised to cut rates, but worries mount over US data vacuum

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will go into a policy meeting next week with its view of the economy obscured by a U.S. government shutdown that has suspended the release of key ...
Daily Mail

How Albanian gangsters use frogmen to hide cocaine on Europe-bound ships - without their crews ever knowing

Albanian smuggling gangs are using frogmen to retrieve cocaine stashed on the underside of cargo ships - as this new graphic shows. Traffickers have long been known to hide packages of drugs in ...
CBS News

Dundalk roads are getting worse from traffic without Key Bridge connector, data shows

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...