Imagine this: you’re managing a sprawling Excel spreadsheet with thousands of rows of data. You need to identify high-priority tasks, flag anomalies, or categorize entries based on specific rules.

Before LAMBDA was introduced to Excel, you'd need to know how to use VBA or macros to create your own function. However, today, Excel's LAMBDA tool lets you do this using familiar Excel language and ...

Q. I am trying to create a formula in our accounting system, but I keep getting errors. What can I do to get the formula to work? A. All Excel users know how powerful formulas are, but sometimes it ...

What-if analysis in Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to explore different scenarios and outcomes by changing input values in your formulas. This guide will walk you through the three primary ...

How to use Excel formulas to compare multi-column lists Your email has been sent Duplicates in the same column are easy to find by sorting, filtering, and using conditional formatting. When none of ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

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Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

How to use BYCOL() and BYROW() to evaluate data across columns and rows in Excel Your email has been sent Most Microsoft Excel functions are autonomous—one result value for each function or formula.