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		<title>Matching Multiple Items</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/22/matching-multiple-items/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that we have the following 2 lists each consisting of 3 columns of data:

And we need to find those items that are in List 1 that are in List 2. However ALL 3 columns of data must match for items to be in both lists. One way would be to construct a comprehensive IF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel Creating Unique Identifiers</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/20/excel-creating-unique-identifiers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/20/excel-creating-unique-identifiers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that we have a list of names such as:

And we want to give each one a unique identifier:

So that the first name Bob has the identifier 1, and the next Mark has the identifier 2. This can be achieved by the following process.
We assign Bob (i.e the first person in the list) with an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Substitution of Strings</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/19/substitution-of-strings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excel’s SUBSTITUTE function allows us to substitute part of a string with another part:
SUBSTITUTE(String,”Old Text”,”New Text”,occurrence”)
Where:
• String is the string that we are working with
• &#8220;Old Text” is the text that we want to eliminate
• “New Text” is the text that we want to incorporate
• Occurrence is which instance of the old text we wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Add a Comment to a Formula</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/15/how-to-add-a-comment-to-a-formula/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/15/how-to-add-a-comment-to-a-formula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A simple way to add a comment to a formula for later reference is to add the following to the formula N+(“YOUR COMMENT”). By way of an example, =SUM(A2:A4)+N(“This is”).
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		<title>Comparing Items in a List</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/14/comparing-items-in-a-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/14/comparing-items-in-a-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider the following two lists:

And that we want to see which items from column A are in Column B. This can be achieved by the MATCH function in conjunction with ISNUMBER .
The MATCH function has the following syntax:
MATCH(A6,C4:C13,0)
And this will return the position of the value cell A6 in the range C4:C13 – the “0” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA: UDF to perform a 3-parameter Vlookup</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/04/vba-udf-to-perform-a-3-parameter-vlookup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/04/vba-udf-to-perform-a-3-parameter-vlookup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LOOKUP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider the following data table:

The standard Vlookup function within Excel has the following format:
VLOOKUP(“”Mark”, B6:G12”,2,FALSE)
Which will return “Brown”.
However, what about if we wanted to look up on 2 or more columns e.g the first name, last name and the age in the above table ? The following UDF allows us to do this:
Function ThreeParameterVlookup(Data_Range As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Dynamic Ranges</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/04/advanced-dynamic-ranges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The standard dynamic range uses a named range based on the COUNTA  formulae:
=OFFSET($H$1,0,0,COUNT($H:$H),1)
However, this only works where there are no blanks in the data. If the data is purely numeric, and contains blank cells in the data then use a range such as:
=OFFSET($H$1,0,0,MATCH(1E+306,$H:$H,1),1)
If the data is purely text then we will need a named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sum by Color</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/04/sum-by-color/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/04/sum-by-color/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following function calculates the total value of all the cells in a particular range that are a particular color:

Function Color_By_Numbers(Color_Range As Range, Color_Index As Integer) As Double

' Dim Color_By_Numbers  As Double
Dim Cell

'Will look at cells that are in the range and if
'the color interior property matches the cell color required
'then it will sum

'Loop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA and Vlookup: Find occurence of string</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/09/30/vba-and-vlookup-find-occurence-of-string/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/09/30/vba-and-vlookup-find-occurence-of-string/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LOOKUP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.automateexcel.com/?p=928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The standard Vlookup function can be used to find a value within a table:

And we would use VLOOKUP like so:
VLOOKUP(A1:10,”Dog”,2,FALSE) to give the value 30.
However, in this list we see that Dog occurs 3 times. The standard VLOOKUP function will only return the value associated with the first item in this list. It won’t return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Averaging Non-Zero Values</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/09/26/averaging-non-zero-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/09/26/averaging-non-zero-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is quite easy to work out the average of a series of numbers:

We just use the average function in Excel. However what happens if we want the average of only the NON – ZERO Values.  The function COUNTIF will count up the cells in a range that meet a criteria:
COUNTIF(Range, Criteria)
The criteria must be [...]]]></description>
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