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 ...

I use these functions to summarize data with formulas instead of dialog boxes. That makes it easier to see exactly what's happening and adjust analysis on the fly. If you're also comfortable with ...

Excel 2007's new table feature eliminates the need to copy formulas; once you define a data range as a table, Excel will do it for you! Tables are new to Excel 2007 ...

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 ...

This useful application MS Excel uses tables to store and analyze mathematical data using formulas and functions and your office work is incomplete without this app. Like all software, it can have ...

Q. How do the TRIMRANGE function and trim references in Excel work? A. Excel’s TRIMRANGE function and trim references help users quickly tidy up datasets. This makes for a cleaner, easier-to-follow, ...

In a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, you may have formulas sitting in one cell that require the information within another cell in order to calculate. These relationships are called references. When a ...

Office Q&A: How to evaluate the last rows in a changing data set in Excel Your email has been sent TechRepublic member Jeff has an interesting and challenging Microsoft Excel problem: He wants to ...

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