We show you how to create a budget or personal finance dashboard in Excel to keep your expenses in sync with reality. Useful ...

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Create a CRM using Excel with dropdown customer selection and FILTER plus XLOOKUP, saving time while keeping leads and deals ...

The text trap: If you select numbers and the status bar stays blank (or only shows the Count), your numbers are formatted as text—and Excel can't sum words! This tells you that you should click the ...

Learn how Excel functions can act as data using LAMBDA, LET, and BYROW, so you reuse logic and cut formula edits.

Here's how to create your own animated Christmas tree in Excel: Open up a new spreadsheet. Click the triangle button in the ...

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