Excel uses the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language to generate functions used within the spreadsheet. Most developers use Excel functions to automate processes such as importing data from a ...

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 ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

This situation is all too common: you need to consolidate data from multiple Excel sheets for data analysis or reporting purposes. Copying and pasting the data can work, but it's an error-prone ...

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 ...

To analyze your company's payroll expenditures, you might create an Excel spreadsheet and use some of the functions in the Financial or Math & Trigonometry categories. To create a pricing spreadsheet, ...

Recently Microsoft has introduced a game-changing set of functions in it’s Excel spreadsheet software that harness the power of Regular Expressions (REGEX) to streamline data extraction, cleaning, and ...

Data cleanup in Excel is common and often one of the most tedious and time-consuming tasks. I've had to do it when preparing reports, analyzing imported datasets, or consolidating information. If ...