When Should You Use the Hash Sign in Excel Formulas?

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I used Excel years ago. And now after about 20 years I am using it again. One thing I found to be very irritating is this version of Excel fights with me. I needed to insert about 200 columns in a spreadsheet I was working on. Excel would follow my commands for a while, then it would refuse to do it and was trying to tell me a faster way of doing it {I think}. And I had to fake it out and do some random thing and sneak back to insert the columns. This was a cat and mouse game. It was exhausting to have to fight with this software. In your examples you never show the software doing this. How do I stop it from doing this?

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[@kenhaley4]

Great video as usual. I always learn something from your videos. Thanks! One thing I just discovered: You can now enter a range, with out a surrounding function--that is, all by itself, (like =A4:B10) and it will act like all the other spillable functions, copying the range. Nothing earth-shaking about that, but you can also do things like: (A4:A10 + B4:B10), and Excel will do the operation for every cell in the range(s) and put the results into a new spilled range.

[@LeilaGharani]

Hi Ken - Yes - this is the new calculation engine of Excel. Before you used to get an error or just one value because Excel couldn't "show" the other ones on the grid, but now because of the spill behavior, it can spill every cell below.

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Learned how to sum the range obtained from FILTER formula using Sum, Index and # after watching this. Great learning experience. 🙏🙏🙏

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I thought I'm an Excel expert, but this is all new stuff - lambda, spills, etc. Thanks for helping me keep updated. Great video.

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[@nobodynobody1235]

what i actually learned from this video is the UNIQUE function :) This will be super helpful, because what i used to do is to copy the entire range of data to another new worksheet, and then use the remove duplicate function to leave me with unique value. This UNIQUE function going to make my process steps more efficient in the future. Thank you.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you found something useful!

[@arsenaultken]

Ditto for me. I have to do the remove duplicates function often and using unique will make things simpler.

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Lol.. I never knew hash in excel, though excel is my primary platform and I see it million times at my work. Now I know!!! Loads of thanks to you...👍👍🙂

[@rudiklein]

This video solved a problem for me which I couldn't figure out myself after spending hours fighting Excel. Thank you!

[@rudiklein]

Well, I was happy too soon. Counting unique fields ( with MAX(SEQUENCE()) ) in a TABLE column doesn't work well when the column is filtered. It keeps counting the whole of the column in the table. I've been looking for a solution to calculate average cost per month, based on the number of months in the selection. Back to the drawing board :-)

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[@DraconaiMac]

This is excellent work and thank you for it. I did have trouble following because I didn't know what a Spilled Range was at the start. Next time, you might want to stop and clarify before making points that require that understanding. You're an excellent speaker and the illustrations are marvelous - I subscribed right away.

[@millomweb]

I'm brand new to this too - but found the explanation of spilled tables in this video adequately covered that.

[@andrew7586]

Great video on the hash function. I was trying to find a way to get an auto expanding two-variable table where the 'x' and 'y' values of my data table were created by SEQUENCE function but didn't know the HASH operator existed until now.

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[@lpanades]

@LeilaGharani, why Excel has not a key, like Microsof Word, to show special features like spill formula's cells. You push the "¶"(pilcrow symbol) and the cells with formulas and spilled formulas get some kind of formatation to show it easyer. Same as formated cells, for example blank formated cells and so on. I love using {} inside collumns of INDEX function to select which collumns to show from a spilled range and the orther to show them.

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I've been questioning this # for years. It's clear now. Awesome presentation, thanks!

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Thank you for the kind words. Andreas has a great channel. I've also had the pleasure of meeting him in person.

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[@FunWithBits]

Wow, thank you. I did not even know excel had multi-value returns. Its interesting that different programming languages added this over the years and now excel has it also... it just dumps multi-value returns to new columns and rows. Now I got to train my brain on how to use it. BTW, Excel is like another programming language itself to me.

[@LarsSimony]

The INDEX trick was for me very useful doing a XMATCH of my two spilled ranges

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

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KZbin just introduced me to your channel. I am looking forward to watching more of your videos. You do a great job at describing how this function works.

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today morning, I was thinking about when to use #sign in excel and KZbin auto-suggested me this video of yours… 😊 thanks Leila

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I started using # in the dynamic data validations based on your suggestions in your previous video. It is really a cool function

[@LeilaGharani]

Great to hear!

[@andres.2510]

Congratz for your channel and all provided information! I love your tips and the clear way you explain everything! About this video, you had a base table and referenced it from a spill formula (UNIQUE). How can we transform the spilled result into another table to further manipulation? Thank you!

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My pleasure!

[@flameofthephoenix8395]

1:06 I would guess that you'd create a =OFFSET(A3:D18,0,0,16,4) to make a spilled range identical to the range you have.

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[@varchar3587]

Thanks a lot for the video. As you presented Unique and # with the same results, finally I an not sure to understand in which situation I should need # (instead of any function)

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Phenomenal, regarding the range (5:02), what if we would like to use “ dynamic range”? I ‘ve got also a question, what is your best video for dynamic range in your tutorials?

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Glad you think so, Marty!

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Thanks for the explanation of using the # operator. Can we use this table (derived from # operator) to calculate % changes in the table

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There's always more to learn :)

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Thank you, Matt! Will do!

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[@DerickPitcher]

Hi Leila. Thanks for making this explanation easy and understandable but I'm stuck in the mud using the # in a formula referencing a spilled range. In my formula I'm getting an error. Let me explain below In cell A3 the formula is: =SORT(FILTER(VSTACK(January:December!B9:T1009),VSTACK(January:December!A9:A1009)""),{1,2},{1,1}) - (Learned this from your video) Formula in cell T3 to get the worksheet name from where the VSTACK function above got the data: =MID(CELL(“filename”, INDIRECT(“A3#”&ROW()-2)), FIND(“]”, CELL(“filename”, INDIRECT(“A3#”&ROW()-2)))+1, 256) After entering the formula in cell T3 I got an error highlighting “A3#” in the formula bar. I was told this could be a dynamic array or spill range bug or I cannot use the formula on a VSTACK result/formula. Excel 365 version: Microsoft® Excel® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2311 Build 16.0.17029.20028) 64-bit

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[@LeilaGharani]

Great to hear, Mark!

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Excellent video instruction! Your teaching on the # sign was clear and concise. Thank you! I also did not know about the spilled range and what that was all about. I assume that the # sign can be used as part of a dashboard report (it kind of reminds me of Excel's Camera feature). Again, thank you!

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Glad to have you here! Thank you.

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I hope it's an upward trajectory 😂

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Hi Leila, Your style of teaching is excellent! I have completed your Dynamic Arrays course in Udemy and started using in my practice as well. I am curious to know that when are you launching your next course?

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! Not sure exactly when, but I will have a course out this year :)

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Hi. I really like your videos. Please make a video about all signs and symbols used in excel formulas and what's their use like comma , is used for or semi colon is used for etc.... thanks

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Welcome aboard, Robert!

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Happy to help, Duane!

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not sure how hash in formula works , but hash in works helps a lot

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I tried some hash once .. have to say i excelled in everything afterwards.

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Great Practical Example

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Perfectly understood and very well explained! Thx for the video.

[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome!

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That's great! Follow the mug :)

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So nice of you, Ahmad!

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Nice video as usual! Crisp explanation and to the point coverage, giving just enough to get the work done. Love your approach Leila! Liked the bonus tip, which is sure to help in many ways! Thanks again! 😊👍

[@LeilaGharani]

Much appreciated, Vijay!