It can be frustrating when your formulas are not updating automatically on Excel. Building on that, here are the possible reasons why it may happen. In this post, we explain four such scenarios: The ...

If you want to display the formula in cells instead of calculated results in an Excel spreadsheet, here is how you can do that. It is possible to show the used or applied formula and hide the actual ...

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Formulas are one of the most important components of an Excel sheet and as such, deserve–warrant–protection. You don’t want users accidentally changing formulas and impacting the purpose of your work.

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Microsoft Excel allows you to control the program display in various ways, including complete personalisation of the top ribbon. If you're finding the large top ribbon to be troublesome, we'll show ...

Excel is the backbone of modern life, powering everything from your personal mortgage calculations to complex corporate budgets. However, a workbook is only as reliable as the person who built it—even ...

Not only does Excel keep information organized in spreadsheets, it can also save you from manually typing data for each cell separately. Formulas compute information directly in Excel and ...

Although Excel, the Microsoft Office spreadsheet program, has a few specialized financial formulas built in to the software program, the accounting format for spreadsheet cells has the most general ...

I usually prefer writing my own logic in Excel, so I was hesitant to start using the Formula by Example tool. But when it turned my manual patterns into a perfectly structured formula, it became the ...

Not everyone is an Excel spreadsheet expert and you may not always know how to write the formulas you need for a given data set. If you're having trouble figuring out the right formula for your data ...