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

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 ...

This video explains how the dollar sign is used in Excel formulas to control whether cell references stay fixed or change ...

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 ...

When working with large datasets in Excel, the performance of formulas plays a critical role in determining calculation speed and overall efficiency. Understanding which formulas perform best and how ...

Office Q&A: Excel referencing, Word field codes, and a table trick Your email has been sent It’s been a month of easy answers for the most part. The problems seem big, but as usual, there’s an easy ...

Q. How do I spill formulas in Excel? A. Spilling is a feature available in Excel 365 and later versions. With spilling, you can create a formula in one cell, and that formula will then spill over into ...

Comments in Excel come in handy for documenting your spreadsheet so you can remember what all the formulas are for or to provide instructions for other spreadsheet users. The How-To Geek points out a ...

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