Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?

After years of wrestling with messy spreadsheets, I've discovered four Excel functions that save me hours every week by automating tedious tasks most people do manually. I stopped using VLOOKUP years ...

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.

Advanced list solutions are easy thanks to Excel's Table object. If you need a dynamic list, try one of these techniques. The article Five ways to take advantage of Excel list features showed five ...

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Excel has plenty of built-in functions for calculations, but some of the most useful ones don't crunch numbers at all—they reveal information about your spreadsheet itself. The INFO and CELL functions ...

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