SUM is the spreadsheet equivalent of an open invite: it welcomes everything into the total, whether it belongs there or not.

TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

Overview Functions like INDEX MATCH, SUMIF, and XNPV allow professionals to work smarter, not harder, especially when handling large or complex data sets.Using ...

Modern Excel functions like XLOOKUP, TEXTJOIN, and dynamic arrays offer faster, more versatile, and error-resistant alternatives to outdated tools such as VLOOKUP, CONCAT, and OFFSET.

This month’s column shows how to use the remarkably versatile AGGREGATE function in Excel.

The lookup function in Excel can save you a lot of time and effort, but only if you actually know how to use its many forms and alterations.

Excel’s UNIQUE function allows users to extract unique values from a dataset, making it easier to identify and remove duplicates.

The new TRANSLATE function in Excel allows users to dynamically translate text into over 100 languages. This function can be particularly useful for ...