Pick the Right Excel Lookup, XLOOKUP or FILTER for Your Data & Stop Wasting Time

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.
MrExcel on MSN

Testing Excel XLOOKUP’s Approximate Match on Text Values

Find out how Excel’s XLOOKUP handles approximate matches when working with text values. We put it to the test so you don’t ...
MUO on MSN

These wildcards in Excel are your secret weapon for faster, smarter searches

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...
IEEE

Feature Matching Data Synthesis for Non-IID Federated Learning

Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving paradigm that trains neural networks on edge devices without collecting data at a central server. However, FL encounters an ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
IEEE

DGIM: Cascaded Dynamic Data Generation for Robust Cross-Modal Image Matching

Abstract: To address the challenges posed by extensive modality differences in image matching tasks, this paper proposes a cascaded learning framework. It guides the optimization of an end-to-end ...