# Recent step updates!

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/recent-step-updates/1203>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [October 20, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/recent-step-updates/1203 "2020-10-20T22:41:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/brian/32/11_2.png) [@brian](https://community.parabola.io/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/recent-step-updates/1203/1 "2020-10-20T22:41:33Z")

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Hey all!

Here are some recent updates to steps to try and make them easier to use and understand, especially for those new to Parabola.

## Recent changes

`Count by group` step, `Average by group` step, and `Sum by group` step

- Better wording in the settings
- Can edit the name of the column that the `Count by group` step creates
- `Sum` and `Average` steps now use the name of the column they are operating on, instead of modifying the name
- `Sum` and `Average` steps can now better handle formatted numbers and currencies

`Insert If/Else column` step

- This step can now handle formatted numbers, currencies, and dates when making comparisons.

`Format numbers` step

- Updating how the settings look to make it less confusing
- Can now format any number of columns in any number of ways
- Added support for many more currencies
- Can now be used to remove formatting that a number may have (turn $4,000 into 4000)
- Added support for accounting formats
- Can be used to round numbers by specifying the number of decimal places to round to (if you use a negative number, it goes into the whole number ranges)

`Filter rows` step

- Renamed - used to be called “Remove rows”
- This step can now handle formatted numbers, currencies, and dates when making comparisons.

`Select columns` step

- Renamed - used to be called “Remove columns”
- Has a better default state when you first add it.

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**Author:** ![andrew](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/andrew/32/36_2.png) [@andrew](https://community.parabola.io/u/andrew)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/recent-step-updates/1203/2 "2020-10-21T16:09:11Z")

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