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Using the powerful AGGREGATE function to bypass errors and hidden data

Using the powerful AGGREGATE function to bypass errors and hidden data

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Using the powerful AGGREGATE function to bypass errors and hidden data

- Excel has a valuable function called AGGREGATE, and you wouldn't be attracted to it if you happened to have seen it on the Formulas tab, if you were looking at Math & Trig functions, here's AGGREGATE, slide over it, what's the description? Returns an aggregate in a list or a database. Not exactly enticing, doesn't even give us a clue as to what it can do. But here's how it can work. I've got a list here of employee names, sales, different years here, and I'm simply trying to tabulate the average for Column B. So I'll click right here in Cell F1, type =average( click Column B, we got an average. I want to do that for 2015 as well, I'll simply drag this to the right, but that doesn't work. And so I'm a little bit curious, so I go to Column C, and I start scrolling up and down. The list could be huge, I might not see anything for a long, long time, or maybe nothing at all. Eventually, in Column C, what's going to pop up, there it is, a mistake, something's wrong there. Not sure how…

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