Microsoft Excel is perhaps the most powerful spreadsheet application you can buy. But it also has some simple functions, like finding duplicates in data.

Excel provides built-in tools to help you to find discrepancies like Filters, Conditional Formatting, advanced functions (If and IS, VLookUp, etc.), and Add-ins.

Excel’s PivotTables (Microsoft runs the words together, although you?ll find pivot tables in other spreadsheet programs) can provide those types of answers. Do you want to group data by category?

You probably use VLOOKUP() function to find exact matches in Microsoft Excel, but you can also find the closest value when you don't know the exact value.

Excel Boolean logic: How to sift spreadsheet data using AND, OR, NOT, and XOR Excel logical functions make it easy to find the data you want, especially in huge spreadsheets.