What if you could write Excel formulas that practically think for themselves—automatically adjusting to changes in your data without endless tweaking? With the introduction of the dot operator and the ...

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Microsoft's Excel program, widely used in business, comes with many built-in functions that perform mathematical and logical operations on spreadsheet data. In Excel, functions are simple formulas you ...

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Power users love to talk about how powerful and awesome Excel is, what with its Pivot Tables, nested formulas, and Boolean logic. But many of us barely know how to find the Autosum feature, let alone ...

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

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); ...