Create Excel pivot tables from multiple tables with the Data Model. Fewer formulas, smaller files, faster analysis. Clean ...

Have you ever followed a YouTube tutorial, carefully copied an Excel formula, and hit “Enter,” only to be met with an error or baffling results? It’s a ...

I have used the Excel functions LEFT ... which is the character(s) we want to use to split the text string into separate columns. In this case, we will use the formula in cell K2, as shown in the ...

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...

This is my simple way to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel to find data fast. I walk through how I use VLOOKUP to look up inventory amounts from a table. This helps me quickly check how many items we ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

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Microsoft's latest additions to Excel will likely please many looking to automate their data crunching processes.