In today’s competitive construction environment, time and accuracy matter more than ever. For quantity surveyors (QS), spreadsheets remain one of the most accessible, flexible, and cost-effective ...

VLOOKUP has been the go-to function for looking up data in Excel for years, but it comes with limitations. You can only search in the leftmost column and return values to the right. If your lookup ...

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The “Too many different cell formats” error occurs in Excel when the formatting in your spreadsheet exceeds the maximum number of formatting allowed. In Excel ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Data lookups have always been a fundamental aspect of Microsoft Excel, allowing users to retrieve and match information across datasets. However, traditional methods like VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP often ...

The personal.xlsb is an important but hidden file that helps you automate some tasks and saving macros but you may encounter an error that it is locked for editing ...

As you use Microsoft Excel more and more, you'll find that the VLOOKUP function is a very popular tool for dealing with large Excel directories or databases. It allows the user to quickly find ...

Microsoft Copilot, the new AI-powered tool integrated into Excel, transforms the way you perform data lookup and merging tasks using functions like VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP. This step-by-step guide will ...