Office Q&A: Excel referencing, Word field codes, and a table trick Your email has been sent It’s been a month of easy answers for the most part. The problems seem big, but as usual, there’s an easy ...

These four overlooked Excel features completely changed how I design spreadsheets.

Excel validation lists avoid blanks and errors with TOCOL(ignore) plus FILTER; the spill range stays stable across worksheets.

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

Much of the data that you use Excel to analyze comes in a list form. You might need to sort the data, filter it, sum it, and perhaps even chart it. Excel tables provide superior tools for working with ...

Many financial systems do a fine job of generating standard reports, but accountants often need more. In those cases, accountants can create custom solutions in Excel, but that approach has drawbacks.

Excel gurus love to tell you, "Always format your data as a table." While that's usually solid advice, it's not always the best move. In some scenarios, a simple range outperforms a table entirely.