Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

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

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

Excel 2007's new table feature eliminates the need to copy formulas; once you define a data range as a table, Excel will do it for you! Tables are new to Excel 2007 ...

Much of the data that you use Excel to analyze comes in a list form. You might need to sort the data, filter it, sum it, and perhaps even chart it. Excel tables provide superior tools for working with ...

As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

Microsoft Excel was first released in 1987 and — despite popular competitors such as Google Sheets — is still used by millions of businesses throughout the world. Described as the “world’s most ...

Those of us over a certain age will remember using paper lookup tables for logarithms or trigonometry functions. Those who are younger will have been exposed to lookup tables in their programming ...