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Counting frequency of comma-delimited tags in Excel

I have an excel spreadsheet with a list of seminars and classes that students have taken that (when abridged) looks like: (A)___ClassName________|(B)_________Tags____________| Astrobiology ...
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Reflection Operation of a string [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Any Excel function that will reverse a string? Using excel, for a cell with a string of characters, for example 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ', is there an efficient method ...
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How to pass a formula as one of the arguments to CONCATENATE?

I'm using Microsoft Excel 2010 and I am trying to create a title which will be updated every time the spreadsheet is opened. I want it to say "Forecast from (today's date) until end of 2013". So far ...
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How to create a random string of random length from the alphabet?

I want to create a random string with random length from the alphabet in Excel. For example, "jlskdjf", "kjlk", "kljsodif", etc. How can I do that?
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Remove URL Parameter in Excel

I have a URL of the following form: http://www.example.com/page.html?param1=asdf&param2=asdfg&param3=asdfgh I want to extract the value of param2 or 3 from the URL as well as remove that ...
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How to convert a single line of Hex numbers into a multi-row Excel table?

I'm currently at some hex strings in a video game's data files. The structure is: XX 01 YY YY (then repeats) Where: XX is the item's cost 01 is unknown (it won't matter) YY YY is the item's ID. ...
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Replace cell formatting with text in Excel?

I received an Excel document that has data that looks like the following: A B C ========================================= 1 |F:\folderName | | | 2 ...
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Any Excel function that will reverse a string?

Are there any built-in Excel functions that will reverse a string?
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Excel string extract

I have a string in a cell: ABCDxxxxxEFGH ABCD and EFGH are constant, xxxxx is of variable length. I want to write an excel formula to extract xxxxx.