Six tips for using Excel sheet groups in easy (but unusual) ways Your email has been sent We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might ...

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 ...

The CHOOSECOLS formula is a catalyst when it comes to selecting specific columns from a table. This formula allows you to streamline your data analysis process by quickly and easily extracting the ...

Excel isn’t the sexiest application in the world—it has an unfortunate association with the type of Milton-esque office drones we all wish we weren’t. All the same, you’re going to have to use at some ...

Discover 8 2026 Excel updates, including AI formula creation and a year of change history, so your team works quicker with fewer mistakes.

Excel formulas are the backbone of any powerful spreadsheet. But let’s be real. They can also be a source of frustration when ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel has been the industry standard spreadsheet software for decades, since outdoing the once venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. And Excel's dominance has yet ...

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 ...

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