Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel ...

For Excel 365, formulas that return a set of values (or an array) are able to spill. Therefore, you can have your formulas spill when using simple calculations, as we did here, and also when using ...

Ever wondered why your Excel formulas sometimes produce unexpected results? It might be due to the order in which Excel performs calculations. This order is defined by the acronym PEMDAS. If you ...

A: This particular question was asked and answered in the May 2011 topic “ An Excellent Arrangement,” (page 70) but I am revisiting this topic to inform you that Excel 2013 now opens each Excel file ...

In a nutshell: Formulas are a must for incorporating math into spreadsheets, but using them in Microsoft Excel involves a learning curve and can become tedious. This latest update adds a bit of ...

Sometimes you just want to tell Excel what it is you want your formula to do. It'd be a lot easier if you could just say "sort this data in ascending order and find its average" i ...

Something wrong with some numbers in that spreadsheet? Here's a shortcut that displays all the formulas in the sheet at once:Ctrl + ` (the acute accen ...