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This Week's /r/Excel Recap for the week of January 31 - February 06, 2026

Saturday, January 31 - Friday, February 06, 2026

Top 5 Posts

score comments title & link
100 52 comments [unsolved] Struggling to work with PDF data in Excel, feel like I’m missing something obvious
8 8 comments [unsolved] Assistance needed for Sage export - how to 'clean'?
5 6 comments [unsolved] Need support on a work tracker for my employees that will be a share document
3 6 comments [unsolved] How can I add two x-axis labels in a graph?
3 9 comments [solved] Count and sum cells with items decided by comers and “x” used for multiples

 

Unsolved Posts

score comments title & link
2 4 comments [unsolved] ctrl + [ for mac
2 17 comments [unsolved] Identify duplicate overlapping events

 

Top 5 Comments

score comment
323 /u/Difficult_Phase1798 said No. XLOOKUP is far superior to VLOOKUP
280 /u/Thiseffingguy2 said It was only a matter of time before “vibe coding” came for Excel… good lord, we’re doomed.
186 /u/MayukhBhattacharya said Its mainly because of Conditional Formatting, Circular References, Volatile Functions and unwanted formatting which can be avoided to large data sets.
184 /u/crabcountyreelestate said See table.buffer for a less convoluted workaround Edit: power query analyzes all your steps and performs them in the most optimal way according to their structure. Apparently sorting two ways back to...
121 /u/dexinfan said Try disabling automatic calculation; some formulas require re-calculating the whole sheet after eg. row deletion so it slows the whole workbook down. Also, XLSB may reduce the file size but not necess...

 

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