Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?

You can use the Sum function in Microsoft Office Excel to sum columns of data, whether your data is in an Excel table or is simply a range in a column of your worksheet. The sum of a column of zeros ...

The Microsoft Excel program includes a variety of mathematical formulas that you can apply to any cell in a spreadsheet. If your business uses an Excel file to track sales information, you can use the ...

Enter your data or use an existing data. Type into the cell where you want to place the result =SERIESSUM(A2,0,2,D2:D4). Press Enter to see the result. The result is 0.504711076. There are two other ...

Conditional formatting tricks: Sum values in Excel by cell color Your email has been sent When you think VBA code is your only hope, try combing built-it conditional formatting tools. You might just ...

Averaging isn’t always a simple total divided by the number of items totaled. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel offers several averaging functions, and one of them will probably get the job done. In this ...