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 ...

If you’ve ever found yourself endlessly repeating the same formulas or tasks in Excel, you’re not alone. We’ve all been there—copying, pasting, and tweaking formulas across workbooks, only to realize ...

While I'll always argue that SUM is my favorite and most-used Excel formula, there are plenty of other powerful functions included in the software. These features go far past using Excel as a digital ...

Excel uses the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language to generate functions used within the spreadsheet. Most developers use Excel functions to automate processes such as importing data from a ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...

Data is rarely properly formatted and structured when you import it. Try these eight tips for fast data cleanup in Microsoft Excel. Data comes in from an increasing number of sources these days. For ...

Learn how to quickly summarize Excel data on-the-fly using these easy-to-implement features. Summarizing data is one of Microsoft Excel’s main functions. The good news is that a lot of number ...