While using Microsoft Excel for data analysis, you may sometimes need to search for and retrieve specific values. In such cases, Excel's LOOKUP function can be extremely useful. It allows you to ...

Learn how to use Excel’s GROUPBY function as an alternative to PivotTables. GROUPBY updates automatically when source data changes (unlike pivot tables, which require manual refresh). The video also ...

Microsoft has recently added a new feature to excel in the form of the extremely useful Scan Function. This guide aims to provide a quick overview of how you can get the most from this new function ...

Microsoft Excel has so many functions that inexperienced Excel users can find the program daunting. One function that you will likely find useful but may not know about is the LARGE function in Excel.

In Excel spreadsheets, complex formulas are difficult to enter without making mistakes. Microsoft Excel’s LAMBDA() function can make such errors easier to find. LAMBDA functions are new to Microsoft ...

Once you start using multiple criteria, MAXIFS and MINIFS make light work of questions buried in your data.

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

When you dive into the world of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, you quickly realize how powerful its functions can be. One such function that you will find incredibly useful is the RANK function. This ...

Please turn this data into a histogram.”You might have been told that and tried to create a graph in Excel, only to find that ...

Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel. The recent article How to generate random letters in Excel shows you how to generate random letters.