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 ...

Performance becomes an issue with large datasets too. A poorly written macro can bog down Excel and take forever to complete, ...

Microsoft has been adding new features to Excel lately, and the latest one could change the way people work with formulas.

The SUMIFS function works in a similar way with text as with numbers, but there are two key differences. First, text in Excel ...

Any program that doesn't do what you expect or let you make changes to something you should be able to edit is frustrating, and Excel is no exception. When it comes to Excel not permitting the ...

Calculate the difference between two values in your Microsoft Excel worksheet. Excel provides one general formula that finds the difference between numbers, dates and times. It also provides some ...

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Q. I usually like Excel PivotTables, but because they don’t allow me to do certain things, such as delete cells or insert new columns or rows, I’m wondering if there is a reasonable alternative? A.