Discover 5 advanced Excel drop-down techniques to create dynamic, auto-updating lists and improve your data management skills.

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Creating top-10 lists in Excel can be tedious if you make them the way I used to. I'd sort the data manually, copy the highest values, and paste them into a separate section. It worked fine, but every ...

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 ...