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

Tables, named ranges, line breaks, modern functions, and helper columns make Excel formulas easier to read, audit, and fix.

Each IF function in an Excel spreadsheet returns one of two messages. The first -- the "if" message -- displays if cells meet criteria that you specify. The second -- the "otherwise" message -- ...

If you've been working with Excel for quite some time now, you've probably scratched your head many times trying to come up with the correct formulas. Sure, you can take one of the dozens of Excel ...

Let’s be honest—Excel can feel like a double-edged sword. On one hand, it’s an incredibly powerful tool for organizing data, crunching numbers, and making sense of the chaos. On the other, mastering ...

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 ...

Can Excel send Alerts? Yes, but with some limitations. Excel cannot email an alert to you automatically unless you write a macro in the Visual Basic (VBA) editor to perform this function. And, the ...

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.