Slow lookup formulas can kill productivity when working with large datasets. To cope with that, I've tested Excel's optimal lookup functions and their combinations for building lightning-fast formulas ...

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

To kick things off, let’s explore how to perform essential calculations like determining the total salary and headcount by department. This is where functions such as `COUNTIFS`, `SUMIFS`, and ...

Not everyone is an Excel spreadsheet expert and you may not always know how to write the formulas you need for a given data set. If you're having trouble figuring out the right formula for your data ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

Excel workbooks are the next step after you’ve mastered the single Excel spreadsheet. Going back to the ledger idea we used in our Excel spreadsheets guide, think of the workbook as the ledger (or ...