Excel's basic formulas work fine for simple calculations, but they quickly become cumbersome when you're dealing with complex data analysis. You end up with nested functions that are hard to read, ...

I usually prefer writing my own logic in Excel, so I was hesitant to start using the Formula by Example tool. But when it turned my manual patterns into a perfectly structured formula, it became the ...

One of the most powerful features of Excel is the array—a formula designed to act simultaneously on sets of two or more values in order to calculate other values. Yet, because arrays appear to be ...

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.

Not only does Excel keep information organized in spreadsheets, it can also save you from manually typing data for each cell separately. Formulas compute information directly in Excel and ...

Tonight’s tip of the night explains how you can use an array formula in Excel to confirm that values on a single row for multiple columns are the same, but discount any instances where a column has a ...

Dynamic arrays have brought significant flexibility to Excel, allowing formulas to automatically expand or contract across cells. However, this functionality introduces a common issue: formatting ...