Quick tip: Make your formulas legible

Embedded Excel functions is certainly a great feature, but it often makes formulas really long and hard to read.

You can easily make your formulas more legible by simply pressing ALT-ENTER while editing it to force a line feed. See for yourself the result of doing so.

20090825_Formula example with ALT-ENTER

Note that you need to put the line feed (ALT-ENTER) after the comma or else Excel won’t accept it, the notable exception being when the comma is in a text string, as in the next picture.

20090825_String example with ALT-ENTER

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