When Should You Use the Hash Sign in Excel Formulas?
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The Hash sign or the pound sign (#) in an Excel formula allows you to easily reference an entire spilled range. You can only use this if you have Office 365 version and already have Excel functions like filter, unique and sort. This way Your Excel formula will automatically adjust and include the whole range as soon as the source data changes.
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I'll show you how and when you can use the # reference in Excel formulas and also when you shouldn't be using the hash reference in your excel formulas.
🔍 Key Takeaways:
▪️ Learn about the use of the hash sign (#) in Excel formulas.
▪️ Understand how and where you can't use the hash sign.
▪️ Discover the concept of spilled ranges in Excel.
▪️ Get insights into practical applications of the hash sign in formulas.
▪️ Find out why you can't use certain functions like Filter, Sort, and Unique in Excel tables.
▪️ Bonus tip: How to select specific parts of a spilled range with the Index function.
If your Excel hash reference doesn't work, it's likely because you aren't referencing a spilled range in Excel. It can also be that you're using the reference inside an Excel table. In which case you'll see the spill error message (#spill). In this video I also explain why you can't use dynamic array functions like filter, sort and unique inside excel tables.
If you have Excel for Microsoft 365 you already have this functionality.
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00:00 What does the Hash / Pound Sign mean in an Excel Formula
06:08 Practical Example for the Hash Sign in Excel
07:18 Why You Can't Use Filter, Sort and Unique in Excel Tables (and other ranges that spill)
09:12 Bonus! How To Select Specific Part of a Spilled Range in Excel with Index Function
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I used Excel years ago.
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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.
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.
So its like matrix algebra!? 🤔 that opens a huge door to new possibilities
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I've been questioning this # for years. It's clear now. Awesome presentation, thanks!
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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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Learned how to sum the range obtained from FILTER formula using Sum, Index and # after watching this. Great learning experience. 🙏🙏🙏
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Thanks again Lindsay
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...👍👍🙂
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This video solved a problem for me which I couldn't figure out myself after spending hours fighting Excel. Thank you!
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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I started using # in the dynamic data validations based on your suggestions in your previous video. It is really a cool function
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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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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.
Glad you found something useful!
Ditto for me. I have to do the remove duplicates function often and using unique will make things simpler.
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I'm brand new to this too - but found the explanation of spilled tables in this video adequately covered that.
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by far the best presenter for videos like this... and the content is great.
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