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90% of Excel spreadsheets contain errors: Here’s how to fix yours

A common source of errors in Excel is "the gap"—a situation where you add new data to the bottom of a list, but your formulas ...

17 New Excel Features for 2026 to Speed up Your Work

Discover 17 new Excel features and functions for 2026, so you track edits and data faster. Including auto-refreshing pivots ...
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5 Excel functions that make data cleanup feel unfairly easy

With the functions I'll discuss here, you can make data cleanup much easier in Excel. They allow you to extract, style, split, and join text to get what you need without wasting hours doing it ...

Excel for Investors: Simulating Stock Prices for Better Insights

Learn to simulate stock prices with Excel and gain predictive power over market trends. Our step-by-step guide enhances your ...

How to disable Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Want to disable Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps? This guide describes how to disable Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and ...

Excel not recognizing functions after reboot

If Excel is not recognizing functions after reboot, change calculation settings, disable Show Formula, run Excel ...

Build Faster Excel Workflows Using FILTER, IFS, XLOOKUP, and LET for Real-World Data

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