1. Sum Alternative Rows / Columns

# Data value1 67 1 Alt. Row Sum 1: 6402 77 0 Alt. Row Sum 2: 6803 69 14 57 05 82 16 86 07 34 18 40 09 90 1

10 77 011 55 112 98 013 68 114 34 015 25 116 99 017 55 118 47 019 95 120 65 0

2. Count How Many Times Each Item on List A is Repeated in List B

List A List B

Cities # of Cust. Customer CityNew York 2 Gill Bates ColumbusCalifornia 1 Beorge Gush BostonColumbus 3 Yerry Jang BostonBoston 3 Parry Lage New DelhiNew Delhi 1 Barren Wuffet New YorkMumbai 2 Amil Anbani MumbaiChicago 3 Tatan Rata WashingtonWashington 1 Random Person Columbus

Another guy ColumbusBridget Jones BostonPointy Haired DiMumbaiRandom Person CaliforniaHollow Man ChicagoAnother Girl ChicagoCill Blinton ChicagoRandom Person New York

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3. Summarize Data with Countif and sumif

Summary

City Total Cust. Total SalesNew York 2 $2,206 M $1,103 MCalifornia 1 $38 M $38 MColumbus 3 $4,047 M $1,349 MBoston 3 $1,936 M $645 MNew Delhi 1 $1,950 M $1,950 MMumbai 2 $2,223 M $1,111 MChicago 3 $5,091 M $1,697 MWashington 1 $1,207 M $1,207 M

4. Lookup 2nd / 3rd / 4th occurrence of an item in a list

Lookup Master DataCustomer Smith Customer CUSTPhone number Smith Smith11st 320-966-4023 Smith Smith22nd 686-612-7782 Jason Jason13rd 132-716-5240 Albert Albert14th 185-813-8883 Nancy Nancy1

Smith Smith3Grove Grove1Andy Andy1Jason Jason2Nancy Nancy2Naancie Naancie1Smith Smith4Andy Andy2Larry Larry1Page Page1Larry Larry2Onemore Page Onemore Page1Larry Larry3Smith Smith5

5. Avoid nested if()s; Use choose() instead

Avg. Sales per Cust.

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2. Count How Many Times Each Item on List A is Repeated in List B

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Revenue Data per Customer

Customer City SalesGill Bates Columbus $918 MBeorge Gush Boston $1,426 MYerry Jang Boston $235 MParry Lage New Delhi $1,950 MBarren Wuffet New York $343 MAmil Anbani Mumbai $1,893 MTatan Rata Washington $1,207 MRandom Person 1 Columbus $656 MAnother guy Columbus $2,474 MBridget Jones Boston $274 MPointy Haired DilbMumbai $330 MRandom Person 2 California $38 MHollow Man Chicago $1,904 MAnother Girl Chicago $624 MCill Blinton Chicago $2,563 MRandom Person 3 New York $1,863 M

Master DataPhone number320-966-4023686-612-7782122-617-7154547-436-7376956-633-7322132-716-5240340-267-0529531-413-4718613-228-4294272-525-2042474-163-1656185-813-8883591-797-3970310-348-2518131-551-5332297-487-5253431-384-0125771-133-2877304-024-4046

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