Budgeting can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. While there is no shortage of finance apps, nothing beats the flexibility and power of Excel. In this post, I will go over the practical ...

Have you ever followed a YouTube tutorial, carefully copied an Excel formula, and hit “Enter,” only to be met with an error or baffling results? It’s a ...

When your spreadsheet has formulas piled on top of formulas, tracking and repairing errors would be agony if it weren’t for Excel’s Precedents and Dependents: cells that are referred to by a formula ...

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...

Q. I would like my employees to be more efficient with Excel. They are all at different Excel proficiency levels. Are there some quick tips I could share with them? A. There are so many tips that can ...

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it ...

Microsoft Excel dominates the world of spreadsheets and is backed by seriously powerful capabilities in data analysis. With so many features, there's always something new to learn. To get to grips ...

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...

Simpler and faster is always better in Excel. We start with some of my favorite shortcuts, then move on to using Excel for everyday situations such as finding random numbers for passwords, or random ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...