Imagine this: you’re managing a sprawling Excel spreadsheet with thousands of rows of data. You need to identify high-priority tasks, flag anomalies, or categorize entries based on specific rules.

A common criticism of Excel's SWITCH function is that it only handles exact matches, such as turning the number 1 into the word "Active." If you want to use greater-than or less-than symbols, most ...

Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

Excel's IF function validates a cell's contents, determining whether it meets criteria that you set. It provides no information beyond what your workbook already contains, but it analyzes the data ...

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel spreadsheet, overwhelmed by rows and columns of data that seem impossible to manage? You’re not alone. Despite its reputation as a workplace ...

For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that ...

Not only does Excel keep information organized in spreadsheets, it can also save you from manually typing data for each cell separately. Formulas compute information directly in Excel and ...

How to turn complex formulas into easy-to-use custom functions using LAMBDA() in Excel Your email has been sent LAMBDA functions are new to Microsoft Excel. With LAMBDA functions, you can turn a ...

Among many Excel features, there are some hidden features that are easy to use and you may not know all of them. Without any further delay, we will look at 5 such Excel features. Sparklines were first ...