Have you ever found yourself tangled in a web of complex Excel formulas, trying to make sense of sprawling datasets with traditional functions like SUMIFS? Many of us have been there, struggling with ...

Make Excel evaluate your data for you.

For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

The INDIRECT function has a rep for being a "nightmare," but for building reactive dashboards, it’s irreplaceable. Here is ...

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

I’ve been helping an administrative assistant (who also happens to be a close relative—see what comes of having a reputation for using technology?) who needs a database on her job to track employee ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

Microsoft Excel is great for numbers, certainly, it does this job really well. But, if you want to present your data in an attractive manner that allows you to visualize and analyze it easily, then ...

Learn Microsoft Excel on iPad with iPadOS 26 menu bar shortcuts and widgets, so you work faster with touch and keyboard ...