Microsoft Excel includes quick stats via Analysis ToolPak; mean, median, and standard deviation are generated for selected ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

Excel can be a time sink. If you are tired of wrestling with VLOOKUPs, filtering data, and text manipulation, it’s time to ...

To analyze your company's payroll expenditures, you might create an Excel spreadsheet and use some of the functions in the Financial or Math & Trigonometry categories. To create a pricing spreadsheet, ...

There are a few ways to count the number of items in an Excel list, depending on the data you have. In this tutorial, learn how to count items in Excel using the COUNTIF and SUBTOTAL functions. Image: ...

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

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...