Q. Is it possible to sort a column in Excel using formulas rather than the Data tab’s Sort tool, so the sort process is performed automatically as I update my data? A. Excel has announced a new ...

Have you ever found yourself buried under a mountain of Excel spreadsheets, painstakingly updating formulas every time new data comes in? It’s a common struggle, one that can turn even the most ...

Have you ever struggled with Excel formulas, trying to calculate running totals only to be left with errors and frustration? Many of us have faced the challenge of managing datasets where each row’s ...

Most spreadsheet problems come from static cell ranges—Excel tables replace them with dynamic, self-managing data structures.

Dynamic arrays change the rules for formula output in Excel. When I write a formula that returns a list by default, I need to decide whether I want the result to spill across a range of cells or ...

Excel’s BYCOL() and BYROW() functions evaluate data across columns and rows, returning an array result set allowing you to bypass a lot of work. Most Microsoft Excel functions are autonomous—one ...

Microsoft is making some improvements to how formulas work in Excel, with a new feature called Dynamic Arrays that allows formulas to output values to more than one cell at a time. Microsoft has ...

Excel doesn’t have a built-in AVERAGEIF() function, but you can still average values, conditionally. Excel has SumIf and CountIf, but no AverageIf. However, with a little array magic, you can get ...