Have you ever felt like Excel was holding back its true potential? While most of us rely on its familiar features to crunch numbers and organize data, there’s a hidden layer of functionality that ...

Microsoft Excel has been the premier spreadsheet software for decades, since outdoing the once venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. And Excel's dominance has yet to be ...

From students to businessmen – Microsoft Excel can be a very useful tool for all who want to create reports, charts, tables and so on. When someone needs to create a chart using a free tool, Microsoft ...

Those of us over a certain age will remember using paper lookup tables for logarithms or trigonometry functions. Those who are younger will have been exposed to lookup tables in their programming ...

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...

Discover 8 2026 Excel updates, including AI formula creation and a year of change history, so your team works quicker with fewer mistakes.

The new Analysis ToolPak is designed for complex statistical and engineering work. However, it’s not turned on by default so you need to activate it yourself when you want to use it. Go to the main ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...