Functions, some of the most useful tools in Excel, let you perform a variety of tasks automatically within a spreadsheet. They return different results depending on certain circumstances, such as ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

Fix Excel formulas that won’t spill! Learn how to troubleshoot #VALUE errors caused by Analysis ToolPak functions and improve your workflow.

Q. There are formulas that I am repeatedly having to create in my Excel workbook, and there are no built-in functions in Excel that can do these calculations. Is there a quicker way to reuse the same ...

How to split a column using an IF() function in Excel Your email has been sent We all inherit Microsoft Excel sheets that don’t suit our working routine. If it’s a simple tracking sheet of some sort, ...

Recently, I have been doing quite a bit of work involving the use of functions inside Excel spreadsheets. Although functions are probably most often used for computational purposes, functions can also ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

I am running into the dreaded "Excel cannot complete this task with available resources" dialog box in Excel while trying to fill a column with a simple VLOOKUP equation. I have one column with ...

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.

In Microsoft Excel, the Autocomplete feature helps users quickly automate the same text in multiple rows. In some cases, the Autocomplete feature will not work. In this article, we will explain what ...