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

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

The SEQUENCE part creates a dynamic list of numbers (1, 2, 3...) that corresponds to the row index. For example, in the fifth ...

How to return the last value in an Excel data range Your email has been sent When you need to see the last value in an Excel Table or data range, these formulas will get the job done. This ...

Excel 365 offers a powerful feature known as calculated columns, which significantly improves your data analysis capabilities. This tool allows you to create dynamic calculations that automatically ...

How to use Excel formulas to compare multi-column lists Your email has been sent Duplicates in the same column are easy to find by sorting, filtering, and using conditional formatting. When none of ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Excel is a great program with hundreds of helpful functions. Unfortunately, one function it's lacking is a simple way to merge two or more columns ...

Want to get more out of Excel? At Microsoft’s inaugural Data Insights Summit last month, several experts offered a slew of suggestions for getting the most out of Excel 2016. Here are 10 of the best. ...