Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
Today we are releasing to our Beta customers a new capability that will revolutionize how you build formulas in Excel. Excel formulas are the world’s most widely used programming language, yet one of the more basic principles in programming has been missing, and that is the ability to use the formula language to define your own re-usable functions.A new way to debug formulas from Excel Labs
Have you ever found yourself tangled in a web of complex Excel formulas, desperately trying to pinpoint the source of an error? Fret no more! The latest experiment from Excel Labs is a new formula debugger, available within the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE). Getting started The debugging capabilities are activated using the new button on the Grid page in AFE. When the button is activated the debugger will be visible in the same editing pane, and you are ready to go! Key features Here are some of the key features to look out for: - Live debugging The debugger updates as you type, making it quick to explore how different variations of a formula are evaluated. - Evaluation steps Each evaluation step is shown, with highlights and underlines making it easy to see what changed at every step. - Range preview View a preview of the grid when hovering over a reference. Previews show the surrounding context to make it easier to navigate. - LAMBDA debugging Debug LAMBDA formulas, such as SalesForBestCategory, shown below. Every function call is contained in an expandable card. This lets you dive into the particular functions you are interested in, to see how they evaluate. Function support Not all functions are supported just yet. If a function or scenario is blocking your work, we would love to hear about it! In case you missed it: Sheet-defined functions Another experimental feature in the advanced formula environment is the ability to automatically convert a multi-cell calculation into a function, also known as sheet-defined functions. This capability has been part of AFE for a while, but in case you missed it – here is a brief overview. Often, we find ourselves spreading a complex calculation over many cells, like this one, that extracts an ID from a piece of text. After writing the calculation we are either faced with many intermediate cells, or we must roll the formulas into a single mega-formula. With AFE and the “Add function from grid” feature, we can automatically convert these formulas into a tidy function using three simple steps: First, select the range containing the formulas that will make up the function. Then click the “Add function from grid” button and provide the references that will define the inputs and outputs. Sometimes, AFE can automatically detect the inputs and outputs based on the dependencies. Finally, AFE will present you with the generated function that combines the formulas in the range. If you use labels adjacent to formulas, AFE can also use those to generate friendly parameter names, like Text or After. How to access The debugger will be pushed to Excel Labs automatically and there is no need to explicitly update the add-in. If you do not have Excel Labs, you can install the add-in from the Office store. Follow this link.Python in Excel – Available Now
Python in Excel is now generally available for Windows users of Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise. Last August, in partnership with Anaconda, we introduced an exciting new addition to Excel by integrating Python, making it possible to seamlessly combine Python and Excel analytics within the same workbook, no setup required. Since then, we’ve brought the power of popular Python analytics libraries such as pandas, Matplotlib, and NLTK to countless Excel users.
HOW TO: "If cell contains specific text display the immediate next word after it"
I have an excel file with each individual cell filled with data as it follows: Alejandro - GREEN Daniel - RED Sebastian - BLUE What I have been trying to do is to use a formula to extract the upper case value thats after the "-" immediate to the specific name of the person. At the moment I have the formula: =IF(COUNTIF(F3:F20,"*"&"Daniel"&"*"),"Yes","No") Which would simply return "Yes" if the cell contains the name Daniel, what I dont know how to do is to replace the "Yes" for a formula that would give me the "RED" in return. I know the formulas Left, Mid and Right are probably the way to go but since the separating character appears 3 times in a single cell (it being "-" I THINK) I have no idea how to stablish to use only the one after the specific name, and return only the very first word next to it (RED in case of Daniel). For this I have the formula =MID(M26,FIND("-",M26)+2,3) Which would give me GRE (3 characters only, dont know how to make it dynamic length) and would only return the very first entry as opposed to it being the one after the specific name, kinda close but no luck yet :/ Is this even possible? Edit: I attach my original file, I didnt before because the formula get so convoluted with other stuff I tried to keep it simple, basically its the formula on column O where i would replace the ":D" with the formula that im asking about.
