Excel gives the answer 10. If you have a mathematical background, you’ll know why Excel gives a different answer to such a simple calculation — and why, technically, Excel is right. If you don’t have ...

Over the past six months, we’ve learned how AI can be used for many tasks: creating art, powering a sophisticated chatbot, and so on. But what if you could use it to actually assist you in your job?

From time-to-time users have to add various formulas for computing values in Microsoft Excel. In a situation like this, the user may need the services of the same formula in another cell, row, or ...

What if you could write Excel formulas that practically think for themselves—automatically adjusting to changes in your data without endless tweaking? With the introduction of the dot operator and the ...

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); ...

As a spreadsheet software program, Microsoft Excel has many useful features for a small business's productivity. Chief among these is the ability to use formulas to make various calculations with the ...

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The VLOOKUP function in Microsoft Excel literally means vertical lookup. It’s a search function for querying values in the cell of a column. This function searches for the data relative to the entries ...

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 -- ...

Data lookups have always been a fundamental aspect of Microsoft Excel, allowing users to retrieve and match information across datasets. However, traditional methods like VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP often ...