Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some pointers for using Excel at work.

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.

Instead of being replaced by AI, Excel is finding new life with powerful AI overlays and CFOs that are doubling down on what ...

Excel's IF function validates a cell's contents, determining whether it meets criteria that you set. It provides no information beyond what your workbook already contains, but it analyzes the data ...

Handle millions of rows by loading queries into Power Pivot, building relationships, and creating measures for fast variance ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced Python in Excel, I have treated it as a ‘someday’ project. I knew Python integration was the ...

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.

You will get an error if Flash Fill cannot find the pattern. The first thing to check is that you're using Flash Fill close to the source data (e.g., in the adjacent cell). For instance, it won't work ...