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  • Need to transform the month and date into date format from "Sunday, December 12 4:25 PM"
    User: "Fahad F"
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  • I have one drop down column "Turbine Operational" with the options Yes or No. Another column "MW Impacted" is a text column. I'd like to be able to input numbers into the MW Impacted Column, but if th…
    User: "Shannon Scarbrough"
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  • I am attempting to use 2 formulas to separate an address that is comma deliminated, but the formula continually misses the mark. The formulas in use: Street address: =IFERROR(LEFT(Address@row, FIND(",…
    User: "Natalia Kataoka"
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  • Hello! I'm trying to create a formula based on status color for my office Smartsheet for 2022. It's blank, but I've been putting in test data to try it out. I haven't done this in so long so I'm out o…
    User: "fennerb"
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  • Me again! I have youtubed hours of videos and cannot figure out what I am dong wrong. I have a unit name that I would to automatically return a unit number from our apparatus inventory. The formula se…
    User: "Troy Bjelland"
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  • I am trying to do the same autogenerating reference numbers using a column that it is like the project class (What is it?) and the reference date will be the created column date that automatically ass…
    User: "Raul Cabrera"
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  • I've got myself going round and round trying to create a good health column formula for the project plan shown below. Hoping you can help with a formula to achieve this for each row/task: Green: Statu…
    User: "Mike Tomei"
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  • I am looking for a way to count the children of a parent row, but only if the children have a particular attribute that is true. I'll then use that count to set up an CountIF to flag the parent row wh…
    User: "katie.dickinson"
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  • Hi everyone, Few questions all interrelated. I disguised my actual field names, but this returns a blank cell.... how can that be? Shouldn't it return either Done or Not Done? I added ,"x" after Not D…
    User: "palmcitytim"
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  • Hello SS Community. After struggling with syntax for VLOOKUP cross-sheet formula, I found information on index/match. I think this may be the formula and solution that I'm looking for. I have sheets f…
    User: "LisaG"
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