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

Numbers by themselves seldom convey the big picture. Excel Charts makes it easy to illustrate trends in your business, from past expenses and profit to sales forecasts based on previous sales. T*o* ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

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 ...

To pick a random name from an Excel table using a method that works across every version of Excel, this classic combination ...

Q. I have an Excel workbook that contains many tabs. We have a “Total” tab, but the formulas to sum all of those tabs gets very complicated. Plus, new worksheets get added and the formulas have to be ...

Microsoft Excel allows you to quickly add percentages to a series of numbers without performing each calculation by hand. As an example, you might have a list of wholesale prices for items you sell in ...

Have you ever crafted the perfect Excel formula, only to be greeted by the dreaded #VALUE! error instead of the seamless results you expected? It’s a frustrating ...