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Insert space after every character of a text string

I solved my problem with the following formula: =TRIM( REGEXREPLACE( A1, "(.)", "$1 ")) Credit to @Erik Tyler for suggesting the TRIM function which provided a much ...
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Formula that looks for any matching substrings between two cells

One way to do that is to create a regular expression, like this: =regexmatch(A1, substitute("\b(" & B1 & ")\b", " ", "|")) When B1 is foo bar, the ...
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I have multiple unequally sized rows that I want to combine into a single matrix. How can this be done?

You could try something as simple as =tocol(code_f3!A1:ZZZ,1) to put all the results (minus blanks) into a single column. ZZZ is the maximum number of columns Google Sheets allows (18278).
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Looking up two criteria in a table, one vertical, one horizontal and finding a value

Basic Formula Works for a single date/row. =INDEX(range, MATCH(name, nameCol, 0), MATCH(date, dateRow, 0)) Error Handling Add the IFNA function to hide errors when no value is found. =IFNA(...
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Runner's time generates error when divided by distance run regardless of the number format

Enter 00:09:07.7 as in Google Sheets, duration values should include hours. You might also have to set the cell format to duration as Google Sheets might show durations as time by default.
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How to filter combined search outputs with OR logic

To search each row in REFS!A3:AA for partial and case-insensitive matches of any of the text strings in AA1:AD1, use regexmatch(), like this: =ifna( filter( REFS!A3:AA, regexmatch( ...
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