Microsoft's Excel program, widely used in business, comes with many built-in functions that perform mathematical and logical operations on spreadsheet data. In Excel, functions are simple formulas you ...

Make Excel evaluate your data for you.

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, wishing it could just do *that one thing* to make your work easier? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually replacing text, trying to filter data with ...

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

The INDIRECT function has a rep for being a "nightmare," but for building reactive dashboards, it’s irreplaceable. Here is ...

Suppose we have a workbook with employee data (employee names) of an organization, as shown in the above image. Column A contains the first names of the employees, column B contains middle names of ...

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...