With August coming to a close and the summer slowdown reaching its final nadir, it’s hard to focus on deal making right now. You find your mind drifting to the long weekend — nice weather, barbecues, ...

Five hidden Excel rules show helper columns, LET, and LAMBDA in action, cutting errors and making updates quick for any ...

=LET (Spend,SUMIF (T_Budget [Category],E2,T_Budget [Cost]),IFS (Spend>F2,"Over budget",Spend=F2,"Budget hit",Spend> (F2*0.9),"Near budget",TRUE,"Within budget")) Let's break the formula down to ...

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.

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 ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

Excel percentage formulas can get you through problems large and small every day—from determining sales tax (and tips) to calculating increases and decreases. We’ll walk through several examples below ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...