Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel 2019 ...

Build flexible Excel functions that automatically handle blanks, defaults, and overrides without messy nested IFs.

What if I told you that the tools you’ve relied on for years, VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, might actually be holding you back? Sure, they’ve been the go-to formulas for countless Excel users, but as datasets ...

Q. There was a December 2020 article in the JofA about cleaning and joining data using a program called Alteryx, but we don’t have access to this program. Could you explain how to do those tasks using ...

Microsoft is introducing a new AI-powered Copilot feature in Excel called "formula completion" to simplify the time-consuming process of writing formulas. Writing formulas in Microsoft Excel requires ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...