Old-school Excel functions like SUMPRODUCT, INDEX/MATCH, and IFERROR remain essential for stable, readable, and maintainable ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a tangled mess of Excel formulas, wondering if there’s a simpler way to get the results you need? You’re not alone. Whether you’re managing sales data, tracking ...

Microsoft's Excel program, widely used in business, comes with many built-in functions that perform mathematical and logical operations on spreadsheet data. In Excel, functions are simple formulas you ...

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Have you ever found yourself endlessly dragging formulas across rows or columns in Excel, only to realize there’s got to be a better way? Maybe you’ve spent hours creating helper columns or ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...