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 ...

Forecasting for any small business involves guesswork. You know your business and its past performance, but you may not be comfortable predicting the future. Using Excel is a great way to perform what ...

Strong passwords are needed to protect your electronic accounts from brute force attacks and other cyberattacks attempted by hackers. In this article, I am going to show you how you can generate a ...

Q. There are formulas that I am repeatedly having to create in my Excel workbook, and there are no built-in functions in Excel that can do these calculations. Is there a quicker way to reuse the same ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank Excel sheet, wishing you had the perfect dataset to test a formula, build a dashboard, or polish your data-cleaning skills? Creating custom datasets ...

How to generate random numbers with no duplicates in Excel Your email has been sent Over the last few months, I’ve written about several of Excel’s new dynamic array functions. They’re powerful and ...

Creating a series of random dates in Excel allows you to test your spreadsheet's functions on a variety of dates or look at projections for a range of future dates. Excel has a built in random number ...

Excel validation lists avoid blanks and errors with TOCOL(ignore) plus FILTER; the spill range stays stable across worksheets ...

Excel provides three functions for generating random values: RAND(), RANDARRAY(), and RANDBETWEEN(), but there’s no comparable function for generating random letters. The truth is, most of won’t need ...

Q. How do I spill formulas in Excel? A. Spilling is a feature available in Excel 365 and later versions. With spilling, you can create a formula in one cell, and that formula will then spill over into ...