Excel 2007's new table feature eliminates the need to copy formulas; once you define a data range as a table, Excel will do it for you! Tables are new to Excel 2007 ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

Have you ever opened an Excel file and felt a pang of unease? Rows upon rows of data, cryptic formulas sprawled across cells, and a tangle of manual formatting that seems one misstep away from chaos.

I've written many times about the many benefits of formatting your data as a structured table in Microsoft Excel. However, despite this, there's one major issue that continues to throw a spanner in ...

Q. I usually like Excel PivotTables, but because they don’t allow me to do certain things, such as delete cells or insert new columns or rows, I’m wondering if there is a reasonable alternative? A.

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 ...

I started writing a series of blogs on the use of Excel spreadsheets for circuit design on the now-defunct Microcontroller Central. Those blogs, though separate from this blog and future ones that I ...

Defining and using names in Formulas in Excel can make it easier for you and to understand data. Besides, it also serves as a more efficient way to manage the various processes that you create in your ...