When you dive into the world of Excel, you quickly realize the power of its functions. Among these, the INDEX & MATCH formulas stand out as incredibly versatile tools for data lookup and retrieval.

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

Excel formulas are the foundation of effective data management and analysis. Selecting the right formula can significantly enhance your productivity, minimize errors, and improve the accuracy of your ...

Microsoft Excel's SUMIFS function calculates the sum of values in a range of cells based on multiple conditions. It avoids the need for complex filtering, and its conditions can be numbers, text, or ...

For many, the INDEX-XMATCH combination in Excel is the go-to method for retrieving a value from a dataset. However, you can also use this dynamic duo to perform two-way lookups, returning a value at ...

We've been writing a lot about Microsoft Excel formulas. The program is the gold standard of programs. It's elegant, ubiquitous, and outstandingly powerful. American business lives and dies by the ...

I keep running into situations in Excel where I want to calculate a conditional sum, but my criterion is something along the lines of "Include cell B1 if cell A1 is a number, likewise B2 and A2, B3 ...

If you use Microsoft Excel, you probably know the popular spreadsheet tool automatically numbers each row in a spreadsheet outside the columns of the sheet itself. But often you want to have a column ...

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.