Excel's IF function validates a cell's contents, determining whether it meets criteria that you set. It provides no information beyond what your workbook already contains, but it analyzes the data ...

Cells in Excel are referred to using relative or absolute references. A formula with relative references changes when the cell's position does. If, for example, a cell has a formula "=A1" and you copy ...

Before LAMBDA was introduced to Excel, you'd need to know how to use VBA or macros to create your own function. However, today, Excel's LAMBDA tool lets you do this using familiar Excel language and ...

Excel is packed with functions, but if you're still relying on VLOOKUP, nested IF statements, or CONCATENATE, you're making your spreadsheets harder to manage than they need to be. Microsoft has newer ...

How to split a column using an IF() function in Excel Your email has been sent We all inherit Microsoft Excel sheets that don’t suit our working routine. If it’s a simple tracking sheet of some sort, ...

In Excel, Boolean logic (a fancy name for a simple condition that’s either true or false) is one way to sift specific data or results from a large spreadsheet. Granted, there are other ways to search ...

you can also read the August 2023 Tech Q&A article “Join Text in Excel”, which explains the function TEXTJOIN, and the previous item in this month’s Tech Q&A “Using TEXTSPLIT to Dissect Excel Text ...

How to Extract a Substring in Excel Using FIND() and MID() Functions Your email has been sent Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data.

Simpler and faster is always better in Excel. We start with some of my favorite shortcuts, then move on to using Excel for everyday situations such as finding random numbers for passwords, or random ...