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 ...

Excel gives the answer 10. If you have a mathematical background, you’ll know why Excel gives a different answer to such a simple calculation — and why, technically, Excel is right. If you don’t have ...

While mastering Excel formulas can be challenging, ChatGPT offers a innovative approach to enhance your formula writing abilities. This guide delves into various strategies to leverage AI for learning ...

Tables, named ranges, line breaks, modern functions, and helper columns make Excel formulas easier to read, audit, and fix.

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Studies, including those by spreadsheet researcher Raymond Panko, estimate that up to 90% of all spreadsheets contain at ...

Each IF function in an Excel spreadsheet returns one of two messages. The first -- the "if" message -- displays if cells meet criteria that you specify. The second -- the "otherwise" message -- ...

The VLOOKUP function in Microsoft Excel literally means vertical lookup. It’s a search function for querying values in the cell of a column. This function searches for the data relative to the entries ...

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Can Excel send Alerts? Yes, but with some limitations. Excel cannot email an alert to you automatically unless you write a macro in the Visual Basic (VBA) editor to perform this function. And, the ...