Tables, named ranges, line breaks, modern functions, and helper columns make Excel formulas easier to read, audit, and fix.

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While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, trying to keep your total rows accurate as your data grows or shrinks? It’s a common frustration—manually updating totals every time something ...

Q. I often use watermarks in Microsoft Word to indicate that the document is a “Draft” or “Confidential.” However, the options to create a watermark are not in Microsoft Excel. I want to indicate that ...

Create a CRM using Excel with dropdown customer selection and FILTER plus XLOOKUP, saving time while keeping leads and deals organized.

Dropdowns are useful features that simplify data entry and enforce data validations in spreadsheet software. Creating a dropdown list is easy. And you might have done that already in Excel. But did ...

Viewing the distribution of related values from one entity to another is a frequent request, and that’s where Microsoft Excel floating bar charts can help. Instead of starting from the X axis, the low ...

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