Excel is well known as a program that allows you to create complex tables of data. However, some people are less familiar with a special type of reference that comes with these tables: structured ...

Learning to use Excel worksheets like relational databases can help you save time, eliminating duplication when managing large projects. A relational database is useful because information resides in ...

The @ symbol can also appear in regular formulas outside of tables when Excel thinks you're trying to reference a single value from a range. If you see it pop up unexpectedly, it usually means Excel ...

Microsoft Excel is designed to alert users whenever a circular reference is causing problems. Folks who are unable to spot the error can take full advantage of the ...

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A few months ago, I speculated on what a then-rumored Office 365 "Life Edition" might end up looking like. Ultimately, Microsoft chose to abandon the "Life Edition" moniker in favor of much more ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced some Excel and Power BI enhancements that add "connected data types" on top of the standard strings and numbers options. Connected data types give access to a lot of ...

Microsoft announced that Excel will soon support custom live data types. The functionality allows you to import your own data as custom data types. These new data types allow you to place structured ...