If Excel is showing formulas instead of results on your Windows PC, check the cell format, turn off the 'Show Formulas' ...

Audit hidden data, filters, and hard-coded values to ensure your Excel spreadsheets are professional and precise.

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Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

Not everyone is an Excel spreadsheet expert and you may not always know how to write the formulas you need for a given data set. If you're having trouble figuring out the right formula for your data ...

Locking is a handy function in Excel that allows users to lock specific or all cells in a worksheet to prevent any intentional or unintentional editing of them. You can easily lock cells in a sheet by ...

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Business owners and their office managers or accountants often need to check formula cells in Excel spreadsheets for potential links to a preceding cell or cells ...

As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.