You can do everything via the side bar instead.

Small changes to how you interact with Excel can simplify formula writing, formatting, data entry, and navigation.

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas (with or without help from the Copilot AI assistant) and ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a tangled mess of Excel formulas, wondering if there’s a simpler way to get the results you need? You’re not alone. Whether you’re managing sales data, tracking ...

Excel is one of those tools that we all know and use, but let’s be honest—most of us barely scratch the surface of its true potential. Sure, you’ve probably mastered the basics like SUM or AVERAGE, ...

Microsoft is retiring Excel’s experimental COPILOT() function while keeping its AI capabilities available through the Copilot side pane.

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

SUMIF, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS, and COUNTIFS are commonly used accounting functions in Microsoft Excel. These formulas are used to calculate cell values based on the criteria you have described or ...

Excel might seem like a basic tool for many, but beneath its familiar rows and columns lies a powerful engine packed with underappreciated functions. While most people know how to sum columns or sort ...

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place. One of the reasons ...

Let’s take a detailed look at these functions, one by one. The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within ...