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 ...

Block bad data, duplicates, and incorrect dates with these custom rules.

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 ...

Write Excel formulas that are easy to understand and don't consume lots of memory.

Q. I am trying to create a formula in our accounting system, but I keep getting errors. What can I do to get the formula to work? A. All Excel users know how powerful formulas are, but sometimes it ...

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Locking is a handy function in Excel that allows users to lock specific or all cells in a worksheet to prevent any intentional or unintentional editing of them. You can easily lock cells in a sheet by ...

After a year and a half of Copilot, the generative AI tool is getting to a genuinely useful place. That literal and figurative place is in Microsoft Excel. At the Microsoft 365 Copilot livestream on ...

Microsoft Office Excel helps small-business owners analyze price trends, collect demographic data to improve your marketing efforts and produce customized reports for your bank or investors. The ...

If Excel is not highlighting cells in the formula, read this post to know how to fix the issue. The default behavior of Excel is to highlight the cells that are part of a formula when a user ...