Microsoft Excel comes with a lot of built-in functionality that doesn't restrict you to comparing data in two columns using only one method.

If you need to conditionally split values into multiple columns in Microsoft Excel, consider using the IF () function. Here's how.

TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

If you instead make a chart from multiple rows and multiple columns, Excel will make one dimension the x-axis and make the other into different series.

Highlighting or even deleting duplicate records in Excel is simple but listing them isn't as easy. Fortunately, you can use Power Query to easily display a list of duplicate values or records.