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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 ...

Q. How do I spill formulas in Excel? A. Spilling is a feature available in Excel 365 and later versions. With spilling, you can create a formula in one cell, and that formula will then spill over into ...

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 ...

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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); ...

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 ...

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.

Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project for a large paper-products manufacturer—a job that, to hear her ...