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

Messy Excel formulas are more than just an eyesore—they're harder to maintain. Every repeated cell reference and tangled ...

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There are many ways to find and retrieve data from a table or range based on a lookup value. In fact, because Microsoft often comes up with new, modernized alternatives, there are too many ways! So, ...

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); ...