Have you ever found yourself buried under a mountain of Excel spreadsheets, painstakingly updating formulas every time new data comes in? It’s a common struggle, one that can turn even the most ...

These new Excel features for working with text and lists will save you time Your email has been sent One of the reasons Microsoft Excel is so popular for so many tasks that aren’t necessarily ...

An curved arrow pointing right. {} These brackets mean something magical is happening inside your Excel formula. An "Array" function allows you to perform mathematical operations on many cells instead ...

Excel's VLOOKUP function searches cell arrays for data that you provide. The function often takes cell references as input, letting you easily apply the function to each cell in a range. Alternatively ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.