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Episode: 2653
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Title: HPR2653: Using the EXACT Function in Excel
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2653/hpr2653.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 07:02:40
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This is HPR episode 2653 entitled, using the exact function in Excel.
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It is hosted by Shane Shannon and in about 3 minutes long and Karina Cleanflag.
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The summary is, Shane explains that he just learned a simple and useful Excel function.
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Hello HPR listeners.
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This is me eating the sandwich that I cut in the last episode I recorded.
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That was a good bite of sandwich.
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That was a sandwich that I cut with the pocket knife that I explained in the last episode I did.
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That was not Niagara Falls, that was a bus pulling up to near where I am under the tree.
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But what exactly am I going to talk about today?
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Well, I'm going to talk about exact.
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Exact is a function in Excel that I just discovered even though I've been teaching Excel for maybe five or six years,
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maybe even nine years.
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I forget exactly when I started teaching Excel on my job, but I've been in my position for nine years now.
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I never knew about this.
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It'll function in Excel called Exact and one of my students actually showed it to me this week.
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I put it up on my whiteboard in the classroom so I could memorize it and keep it in my memory.
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So the way it's written is its written equal sign, the word exact followed by a round bracket,
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followed by the reference of the first cell, followed by comma, followed by the reference of the second cell, followed by a closed round bracket.
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And what it does is it compares two cells, the values of two cells, and lets you know, true or false, one of those cells are exact.
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So if you look on the office.com page about how this works in Microsoft Excel,
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it'll show you examples of how you can compare three words.
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Sorry, two words.
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It shows you three examples of comparing those words.
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And it'll tell you if it's those words are exact or not.
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So my student was using it to check that his formula, I mean the results was formula.
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He was checking to see if it was correct or not.
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So he used something like equal, then the word exact, then an open rounded bracket,
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then a1, comma, d1, closed rounded bracket.
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And you can see how this would be pretty useful.
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And most of you, I assume you know all about this.
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But number one, HPR needs episodes.
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Number two, maybe it'll remind you of this formula and maybe you can use it today or tomorrow.
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If so, let me know in the comments.
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And number three, maybe this has new to you, like it was to me, even though I've known about it for a while.
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So there we go.
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That is exactly all I wanted to say.
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Goodbye.
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