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 ...

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 ...

Five hidden Excel rules show helper columns, LET, and LAMBDA in action, cutting errors and making updates quick for any growing sheet.

Not everyone is an Excel spreadsheet expert and you may not always know how to write the formulas you need for a given data set. If you're having trouble figuring out the right formula for your data ...

It can be frustrating when your formulas are not updating automatically on Excel. Building on that, here are the possible reasons why it may happen. In this post, we explain four such scenarios: The ...

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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); ...

Calculating sales tax on prices is something you don't have to worry about if you use Excel. You can add a formula to the spreadsheet you use for invoices, bills of sale or quotes, and that's the end ...

Econometrics is important, but a great deal of the work of economists is simply looking at data, graphing data, charting data, calculating ratios and percent changes, and performing other data ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

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 ...