worksheet-function

So I'm trying to find/make a program that will find all my duplicate words in excel. For example in A1 "someone" in A2 ""person" and ect but I'll have "someone" multiples times or another word and I need to condense that information together. But I need to do it in a way where I don't search manually to concatenate duplicates. So is there a way to find the duplicate words and concatenate them? I have also been looking into doing it using "FIND" to look for them but it has yielded no luck yet. I also have been using the "FILTER" but I don't know a way to condense the duplicates without doing it

I need some gem/plugin to create an Excel spreadsheet with formulas to use in my Rails application. Any suggestions? I've used Roo and it's quite good and easy to do spreadsheet processing (once you get all the gem dependencies installed). However, it doesn't support formulas natively. It won't eval the formula and return the result (this would be difficult I think -- use the excel engine?) but it will give you the text of the formula, for example: =SUM(.A1,.B1) It'd be pretty easy to handle this specific case but if you have many different formulas and functions then rolling your own

I would like to work out the current time since a date and time specified. If the specified data is : 19/01/2013 16:44:00 and now the time is : 19/01/2013 16:45:00 the difference is 0 years 0 months 0 days 0 hours 1 minute 0 seconds This can be done easily just by taking the current time and minus the previous time and format it but this is hard to crunch data so what I wish to do is break each date/time segment into its own cell Let's say cell A1 has the previous time and cell A2 has the current time Cells a5 trough f5 would contain 0 years 0 months 0 days 0 hours 1 minute 0 seconds On a

I have an array constant defined in cell A1 as {1,2,3}. This displays as "1" (the first value in the array). I would like to have the formula SUM(A1) return 6. However, SUM is using A1 as a single-celled array, rather than the array constant contained inside A1 - and therefore SUM(A1) returns 1. Likewise, I would expect AVERAGE(A1) returns 1 instead of 2. So simply speaking, how do I get SUM(A1) to return the same value as SUM({1,2,3})? I don't want to make the array constant a named reference because i'm defining a different array constant for every row. It feels like i'm stuck in C++ w/o a

I have two different work sheets in excel with the same headings in in all the row 1 cells(a1 = id, b1 = name, c1 = price). My question is, is there a way to import data(like the name) from 1 worksheet to the other where the "id" is the same in both worksheets. eg. sheet 1 sheet2 ID Name Price ID Name Price xyz Bag 20 abc 15 abc jacket 15 xyz 20 So is there a way to add the "Name" in sheet 1 the "Name" in sheet 2 where the "ID" in sheet 1 = "ID" in sheet 2? Without coping and pasting of course Thanks VLookup You can do it with a simple VLOOKUP formula. I've put the data in the same sheet, but