Have you ever stared at a sprawling Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to make sense of the chaos? For many, Excel formulas feel like a secret language, powerful yet elusive. But here’s the truth: ...

Q. What happened to Excel’s ability to import stock prices? That functionality seems to have vanished. A. Many CPAs treasured the ability to link real-time stock prices in Excel, but Microsoft removed ...

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...

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 ...

Formulas help business owners create useful spreadsheets that perform complex calculations automatically. Markup percentages, which show the difference between cost and selling price, are ideal ...

You might use Excel to track your budget, but your investments? That's less likely when stock prices change from moment to moment. Now, though, you don't have to think much about it. Microsoft has ...

When your spreadsheet has formulas piled on top of formulas, tracking and repairing errors would be agony if it weren’t for Excel’s Precedents and Dependents: cells that are referred to by a formula ...

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); ...