Chapter 6

Text functions and Flash Fill

Questions answered in this chapter:

  • I have a worksheet in which each cell contains a combined product ID, a product description, and a product price. How can I separate all the product IDs to column C, all the prices to column D, and all the product descriptions to column E?

  • Every day, I receive data about total US sales, which is computed in a cell as the sum of East, North, and South regional sales. How can I extract East, North, and South sales to separate cells?

  • At the end of each school semester, my students evaluate my teaching performance on a scale from 1 to 7. I know how many students gave me each possible rating score. How can I easily create a bar graph of my teaching evaluation scores?

  • I have ...

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