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HTML Link Building Using Excel

While building a link list for my blogroll page (see Blogs I Read), I needed a way to create the list of links. The prospect of building all of the links by hand is pretty exhausting (yes, even the thought), so why not leverage Excel's capabilities?

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Format SSN – Updated formula

Here is an update to the code I have posted on the site at

Format SSN

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Counting Unique Occurrences in an Excel Spreadsheet

This formula, entered as an array (Ctrl-Shift-Enter) in a single cell, will show you if there any duplicate entries in a given range (in this case, A1:C100). It is wrapped in an IF function to provide a friendly message; a kind of in-cell error handling, if you will. I usually do this when I know others are going to use the formula, to make it easy for them to understand the output. Otherwise it just gives you the number of unique entries which some people may not know what to do with.

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