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Wildcards

In this last exercise we will practice using wildcards to efficiently plough through long Product Name values!

You can complete this exercise on DataCamp using in-browser Excel, or locally if you have Excel installed.

Our criteria for this exercise: Order Item IDs related to "Book" but not to "Bookcase" in Product ID or Product IDs beginning with "TEC-PH".

To help and inspire you, here are some popular wildcard commands:

Example of several wildcards

This exercise is part of the course

Advanced Excel Functions

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