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 ...

ChatGPT can assist with complex Excel formulas, including a VLOOKUP plus IFERROR to return not listed when no match appears.

One easy way to manage your money better is by laying everything out in a spreadsheet. You may think only businesses need them, but everyone needs to keep track of their finances. A spreadsheet is ...

Hide a sheet if you want, rather than delete it, making its data still available not only for reference, but also for formulas on other sheets in the workbook. Right-click the tab and select Hide.

I’ve heard from several readers who have Excel, but have no idea what to do with it. Well, explaining all of a spreadsheet program’s capabilities could fill a very large book. Here’s a starting place ...

Microsoft Excel has been the premier 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 to be ...