If you need to find a particular value in an Excel sheet, the quickest way is to use a lookup formula. The most popular functions to use in these formulas are VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, which search across ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

Excel-DNA - see http://excel-dna.net - is an independent project to integrate .NET with Excel. With Excel-DNA you can make native (.xll) add-ins for Excel using C# ...

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might realize. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know. I've been writing professionally about computers, the internet, and technology ...

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Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel spreadsheet, overwhelmed by rows and columns of data that seem impossible to manage? You’re not alone. Despite its reputation as a workplace ...

Q. Traditional PivotTables have always intimidated me. I see there is a new Excel function called PIVOTBY. What is the difference between it and the traditional PivotTable? With the PIVOTBY function, ...

Q. Are there any alternatives to traditional PivotTables in Excel? A. The first thing that comes to mind is the function GROUPBY. The primary purpose of GROUPBY is to make data analysis easier by ...

While the PIVOTBY function can only reference source data in Excel, if you create a PivotTable in Excel 2016 or later or Excel for Microsoft 365, you can choose to pull in data from an external source ...