Imagine this: you’re managing a sprawling Excel spreadsheet with thousands of rows of data. You need to identify high-priority tasks, flag anomalies, or categorize entries based on specific rules.

Q. I read the June 2020 JofA article on SUMIF. I have tried to use it in my Excel spreadsheet, but it won’t work since I have multiple criteria. Is there a way to get SUMIF to work if you have more ...

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...

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

The OR function is a logical function in Microsoft Excel, and its purpose is to determine if any condition you test is True. The formula for the OR function is OR (logical1, [logical2],..). The Syntax ...

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); ...

How to nest multiple IF Statements using text data? Consider cell A2 as the source cell, in which you will either enter a text or numeric value. Take as an example data in text format ranging from ...

Microsoft Excel was first released in 1987 and — despite popular competitors such as Google Sheets — is still used by millions of businesses throughout the world. Described as the “world’s most ...

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might imagine. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.

Microsoft Excel 2010 provides a formula for calculating the average value from multiple worksheets in a workbook. Before you apply this formula, check that each worksheet is formatted the same way.