Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

Messy Excel formulas are more than just an eyesore—they're harder to maintain. Every repeated cell reference and tangled ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

The SEQUENCE part creates a dynamic list of numbers (1, 2, 3...) that corresponds to the row index. For example, in the fifth ...

Much of the data that you use Excel to analyze comes in a list form. You might need to sort the data, filter it, sum it, and perhaps even chart it. Excel tables provide superior tools for working with ...

Q. How do I spill formulas in Excel? A. Spilling is a feature available in Excel 365 and later versions. With spilling, you can create a formula in one cell, and that formula will then spill over into ...

Those of us over a certain age will remember using paper lookup tables for logarithms or trigonometry functions. Those who are younger will have been exposed to lookup tables in their programming ...

Have you ever felt limited by the rigidity of Excel PivotTables when creating interactive reports? Many users assume that Excel slicers, the sleek, clickable filters that make data exploration a ...

In Microsoft Excel 2010, you can create large tables in which to store your data and then use it in formulas and store the results in the same table. You can insert and calculate almost anything ...