W hen you're working with data in Excel, certain tasks can feel unnecessarily tedious. Maybe you need to split a column of full names into separate first and last name columns, or combine text from ...

Ideally, any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains names and addresses breaks up each category of information into separate columns for each significant part. That means, for example, that an ...

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's Import From Text function takes lists of text and processes them into spreadsheet data. The process works using delimiters -- special characters that denote where the beginning and end of each ...

Extracting domains from email addresses can help analyze data, filter company-specific emails, and organize them for marketing or security purposes. If you have a database of email addresses and you ...

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 ...

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); ...

Microsoft has been adding new features to Excel lately, and the latest one could change the way people work with formulas.

Reader Benjamin Peacock confronts an issue regarding the intersection of Excel and Mail. He writes: I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains a list of email addresses. Before Mavericks, I could ...