For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that ...

Excel can feel like a maze of endless rows, columns, and formulas, especially when you’re trying to create something as detailed as a loan repayment report. If you’ve ever found yourself overwhelmed ...

Whole-column references in Excel are silent performance killers, often forcing the program to manage a range of over a ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the tedious cycle of manually updating Excel reports every time new data comes in? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? You tweak a chart here, adjust a formula there, and ...

Q. How do I use the FILTER function in Excel, and how is this an improvement over the filter feature? A. The FILTER function was introduced five years ago as part of the Excel Dynamic Arrays rollout.

VIDEO: It's easy to update charts automatically.

Over the last few months, I’ve written several articles about Excel’s newish dynamic array functions. In many cases, they can replace older, more complex expressions. The new functions do all that ...

Users will appreciate a chart that updates right before their eyes. In Microsoft Excel 2007 and Excel 2010, it's as easy as creating a table. In earlier versions, you'll need the formula method.