Database functions excel at managing multiple criteria, including AND and OR conditions, allowing for comprehensive and accurate data analysis.

This month’s column shows how to use the remarkably versatile AGGREGATE function in Excel.

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the ...

To extract and sort non-adjacent arrays in your data, nest the CHOOSECOLS or CHOOSEROWS functions inside your SORT or SORTBY formula. Alternatively, to extract, filter, and sort columns from a dataset ...

You use these functions when you want to find values based on the value in a corresponding cell. Thanks to the newish dynamic array function XLOOKUP (), you now have more power and less confusion.

SERIESSUM function returns the sum of a power series based on the formula. Learn how to use the SERIESSUM function in Excel.

When the filtered set has multiple records, you might want to sort the results using SORT () How to add the SORT () function in Excel The SORT () function is another new dynamic array function.

If you need to use the Excel IF function and multiple conditions, consider using the IFS function instead. This allows you to test multiple conditions in order, picking the first that returns true.

The Excel TEXTSPLIT function can split text strings by using row or column delimiters. Learn how to use the new TEXTSPLIT () function in Excel.