Whether you are preparing a proposal for a new client or presenting your annual sales forecast, pie charts provide an instant visualization of complex numbers. Microsoft Excel includes a range of ...

How well do you know Word and Excel? These programs aren't just the most common tools in the Office suite, they're the all-around workhorses in your office. Yet there's a lot of power tucked away in ...

This is my simple way to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel to find data fast. I walk through how I use VLOOKUP to look up inventory amounts from a table. This helps me quickly check how many items we ...

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REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a ...

Have you ever been overwhelmed by messy spreadsheets or struggled to collect data in an organized way? Imagine a scenario where instead of juggling multiple tabs and rows, you could guide users ...

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