If you want to display the formula in cells instead of calculated results in an Excel spreadsheet, here is how you can do that. It is possible to show the used or applied formula and hide the actual ...

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that the VALUE function in Microsoft Excel is obsolete. You'll probably seldom need to use it on its own, but when combined with other functions, it's still as ...

For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that same cell. But the introduction of dynamic array behavior (in Excel for ...

Have you ever crafted the perfect Excel formula, only to be greeted by the dreaded #VALUE! error instead of the seamless results you expected? It’s a frustrating ...

Q. I use formulas to create the totals in my Adjusted Trial Balances and other spreadsheets. There are always so many zero values, and they are very distracting. I know that there are different ...

If Excel is not highlighting cells in the formula, read this post to know how to fix the issue. The default behavior of Excel is to highlight the cells that are part of a formula when a user ...

Q. I am trying to create a formula in our accounting system, but I keep getting errors. What can I do to get the formula to work? A. All Excel users know how powerful formulas are, but sometimes it ...

Many Microsoft Excel sheets store date and time values. Sometimes the two values appear in the same cell, and sometimes they do not. If you work with dates and/or times, you need a good understanding ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Return on investment (ROI) measures the amount of ...