Make Excel evaluate your data for you.

Have you ever found yourself tangled in a web of complex Excel formulas, trying to make sense of sprawling datasets with traditional functions like SUMIFS? Many of us have been there, struggling with ...

As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

Q. In your November Tech Q&A article on Excel’s Scenario Manager, you mentioned two other “what-if” tools: Goal Seek and Data Table. Can you show how those work like you did with Scenario Manager?

The FILTER function extracts every matching record while XLOOKUP only returns the first result.

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 ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

Excel's query tool reshapes messy imports into 1NF, so AVERAGEIFS replaces hacks and your summaries run faster.

Most people view Microsoft’s Excel as a simple “spreadsheet program” that’s rapidly being eclipsed by free web-based apps that run on any cheap laptop. Well think again. Modern-day Excel is an ...

Follow the steps below on how to use the Food Data Type in Microsoft Excel to get calorie & nutrition facts: Launch Excel spreadsheet Highlight the cells of the Food you want to look up. Click the ...