What finally helped me break that cycle was learning to use named ranges in Excel not only as stable anchors but also as flexible, relative references that behaved exactly the way I intended. Once I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. What happened to Excel’s ability to import stock prices? That functionality seems to have vanished. A. Many CPAs treasured the ability to link real-time stock prices in Excel, but Microsoft removed ...

You might use Excel to track your budget, but your investments? That's less likely when stock prices change from moment to moment. Now, though, you don't have to think much about it. Microsoft has ...

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 ...

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.