Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.

If your business uses spreadsheets, you may find it necessary to count the number of cells containing data in a worksheet. You might also need to determine how many cells are empty or if the values of ...

Q. I am trying to do some analysis regarding how many clients each of our departments serviced and how many of those clients were billed over a certain amount. I have our department/ client ...

Excel is a powerful tool in the Microsoft Office suite of programs that allows you to create spreadsheets that can present a simple set of information or work through highly detailed and complicated ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

Microsoft Excel is capable of counting the number of cells that contain numbers, so if there was a time when you chose to manually count cells, then such days are over. That is because it is possible ...

Counting duplicate values is a subject that begs definition. What constitutes a duplicate? Within Excel, you can have duplicate values within the same column or you can have duplicate records — a row ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2005. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. I’m puzzled. I use ...

While Excel was designed for numbers, it also involves text in cells. So, for example, if you want to transfer your data and limit the characters for each cell, you may want to know how to count ...