Split Comma Separated Value Ignore Comma In Brackets Excel (2 Examples)

If you've tried to split or separate text string that's delimited by commas ( or semicolons) it's a straight forward process using the text to columns feature. However if you have some values that are enclosed in parenthesis or brackets and you don't want that text to be separated, it wouldn't work. There is a workaround that this video goes through. One is a VBA solutions provided from iliace at the mrexcel forum (https://www.mrexcel.com/board/threads/separating-commas-and-parenthesis.403833/) and the other is an adjustment to the text with find/replace before using the text to column feature.

2 Ways to Quickly Filter Unique Records From Table

When you get data from others, sometimes you find that you'll have to do some clean up. A common clean up activity is removing duplicate data or records from a table or range of data. Small tables are easy to do, just find the row and right click delete row. But if it's a lot of data, or this is something you do on a recurring basis, there's an easier way to do this. In this video, I'll show you two examples of how this can be done. One with the newer dynamic array function (available for M365) called UNIQUE and the other with the old school Advanced Filter feature.

Create a Dynamic Chart Title Sourced from Pivot Table & Slicer

Pivot Tables are one of the best analytical tools in Excel. To enhance and better present the data / information to your audience, you'd need to have a chart to visualizes the data. You may also have a meaningful title, but what if you want to change the Pivot Table? You'd think that you might need to manually change the title to reflect the pivot table chart. Nope! You can use slicers and an additional table to create dynamic text to put into your chart title.