Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, wishing it could just do *that one thing* to make your work easier? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually replacing text, trying to filter data with ...

If you’ve ever found yourself endlessly repeating the same formulas or tasks in Excel, you’re not alone. We’ve all been there—copying, pasting, and tweaking formulas across workbooks, only to realize ...

Microsoft Excel's CHOOSECOLS and CHOOSEROWS functions are a game-changer if you want to quickly extract specific columns or rows from your data without nesting several functions in your formula.

Q. Is it possible to sort a column in Excel using formulas rather than the Data tab’s Sort tool, so the sort process is performed automatically as I update my data? A. Excel has announced a new ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

Excel's GROUPBY function lets you group and aggregate data based on certain fields in your table of data. It also offers arguments that allow you to sort and filter your data, so you can tailor the ...

Learn how to quickly summarize Excel data on-the-fly using these easy-to-implement features. Summarizing data is one of Microsoft Excel’s main functions. The good news is that a lot of number ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...