Microsoft Excel has four cell modes—Ready, Enter, Edit, and Point. Having the correct cell mode activated is crucial for ...

To apply the dollar currency to a value, select the cell, press Ctrl+1 to launch the Format Cells dialog box, and select "Currency" or "Accounting" in the Number tab. Then, choose the dollar symbol ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

Microsoft Excel has long supported richer data types than just text and numbers, but it lacks a way to visually differentiate those types. That’s going to change. “Microsoft Excel has continuously ...

Excel is a powerhouse at transforming and manipulating data, thanks to a wide variety of Excel formulas and in-app tools. Add Power Query to this already powerful mix, and you get an even more ...

If you get an Excel error message saying that your formula omits adjacent cells when you try to enter it, your Excel spreadsheet has probably been modified. This ...

We show you how to copy a formula in Excel without changing cell references, using mixed references and simple techniques to keep your formulas intact when moving or auto-filling. Microsoft Excel is a ...

Not everyone is an Excel spreadsheet expert and you may not always know how to write the formulas you need for a given data set. If you're having trouble figuring out the right formula for your data ...

Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel 2019 ...