Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel’s XLOOKUP function, wishing it could just do a little more? Maybe you’ve been frustrated by its single-column ...

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.

Excel Ideas helps you extract the key information from a spreadsheet, but there's currently a limited range of insights available and some data formatting may be ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

How to use Excel’s PivotTable tool to turn data into meaningful information Your email has been sent Before Microsoft Excel added the PivotTable tool, you had to use summarizing functions and features ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This is one tool you must use in Excel. There's no need to download data to a text file and then import it into your spreadsheet. With the "Text to Columns" tool you ...

Nearly a year after Microsoft Word celebrated its 41st anniversary in November 2024, another cornerstone of productivity software, Microsoft Excel, is marking a major milestone. Excel turns 40 this ...