Mastering Excel goes far beyond SUM and VLOOKUP. By learning functions like COUNT, AVERAGE, SUMIF, SUBTOTAL, XLOOKUP, and INDEX/MATCH, you can find opportunities to improve your Excel sheet. Some ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

The SUMIFS function works in a similar way with text as with numbers, but there are two key differences. First, text in Excel ...

When you dive into the world of Excel, you quickly realize the power of its functions. Among these, the INDEX & MATCH formulas stand out as incredibly versatile tools for data lookup and retrieval.

We've been writing a lot about Microsoft Excel formulas. The program is the gold standard of programs. It's elegant, ubiquitous, and outstandingly powerful. American business lives and dies by the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Once you have mastered VLOOKUP in Excel it's time to move on to INDEX/MATCH. This formula combination gives the same results but without the problems of VLOOKUP.

Using multiple sheets in the same Excel workbook helps organize data into distinct categories. For example, you might have sales data for each of your four main departments on four separate sheets. If ...