If you're writing a formula that involves comparing two strings of text, beware. Two identical strings of text, one in uppercase, the other in lowercase, will be considered to be the same. Use the EXACT function if you want to differentiate between the two.
Wizard’s tips by email
Search this site
Topics
- Advice (11)
- Formulae explained (12)
- General (8)
- How to (33)
- Quick tips (18)
- Tools (8)
- Uncategorized (5)
Tags
- ADDRESS
- CLEAN
- CONCATENATE
- Conditional format
- copy
- COUNTIF
- COUNTIFS
- Custom View
- cut
- Data import
- Dollars
- Editing
- EXACT
- Fill
- filter
- Format
- Formulae
- Frequency
- HLOOKUP
- IF
- INDIRECT
- LEFT
- Mail Merge
- MID
- MIN
- MOD
- Navigation
- paste
- Paste Special
- PivotTable
- PivotTables
- RANK
- RIGHT
- ROUNDDOWN
- ROUNDUP
- Series
- Shortcut
- SMALL
- SUM
- SUMIF
- SUMIFS
- Text to columns
- TRIM
- VLOOKUP
- WEEKDAY