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“Auditing” a whole range

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I was surprised to find there was no way to display dependencies arrows for a selection using the Formula Auditing tool bar. I don’t use it a lot, but I would have though that this is the sort of thing it should be able to do. Now,  I also know that there are quite a [...]

Broken Workbooks!

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Recently I have been thankful for a couple of Office features which help with damaged files. I think both of the following first appeared in Office XP. The first is extremely strange and was unknown to me until very recently.
On the “About Microsoft Excel” [under the help menu) there is a “Disabled Items” button. Why [...]

xlfootymanager

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This is very cool! and as it's the world cup!!!!
 

 
http://www.xlfootymanager.co.uk/

What is the most useless Excel Function

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It struck me today that the DGET function might be the most useless fuction in the whole of Excel, this is from the help file:
DGET
Extracts a single value from a column of a list or database that matches conditions you specify.
Syntax DGET(database,field,criteria)
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Remarks
If no record matches the criteria, DGET returns the #VALUE! error value. If more [...]