Messy Excel formulas are more than just an eyesore—they're harder to maintain. Every repeated cell reference and tangled ...

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In this guide, you will learn how to use Excel’s advanced formulas such as INDEX-MATCH, OFFSET, and INDIRECT to enhance your data analysis capabilities. First, let’s explore the INDEX-MATCH ...

Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel 2019 ...

Microsoft Excel was first released in 1987 and — despite popular competitors such as Google Sheets — is still used by millions of businesses throughout the world. Described as the “world’s most ...

Life is hectic, and juggling dozens of apps for the "must-do" chores adds to the noise. Since I already work in Excel daily, ...

Not everyone is an Excel spreadsheet expert and you may not always know how to write the formulas you need for a given data set. If you're having trouble figuring out the right formula for your data ...

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 ...

Learn the difference between formulas and functions and how the two can be combined to unlock the data-crunching potential of Microsoft Excel. The MSU Libraries' offer three different Excel workshops: ...

Microsoft is adding the Python programming language to Microsoft Excel, allowing users to create powerful functions for analyzing and manipulating data. The public preview of the feature is now ...

It can be frustrating when your formulas are not updating automatically on Excel. Building on that, here are the possible reasons why it may happen. In this post, we explain four such scenarios: The ...

Q. Is there a way to conditionally format Excel so that my formulas automatically display a different font color? In this example, we have now successfully applied conditional formatting to cell A1, ...