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The default method for including a column reference in an Excel formula is to use the column letter, a convention that may make it difficult to interpret the parts of complex formulas. Microsoft ...

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How to turn complex formulas into easy-to-use custom functions using LAMBDA() in Excel Your email has been sent LAMBDA functions are new to Microsoft Excel. With LAMBDA functions, you can turn a ...

You might be familiar with bookmarks in Microsoft Word, which are invisible way-points in specified locations of a document that you can jump to whenever you need to. Microsoft Excel's alternative to ...

Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel 2019 ...

How to use named ranges to quickly navigate an Excel workbook Your email has been sent There are lots of ways to move around a sheet or from sheet to sheet in an Excel workbook; however, you can ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...

Combining or merging the first and last names in an Excel spreadsheet or workbook requires using the CONCAT and Ampersand functions or formulas. You can also use ...

Microsoft Excel was first released in 1987 and — despite popular competitors such as Google Sheets — is still used by millions of businesses throughout the world. Described as the “world’s most ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Excel is a great program with hundreds of helpful functions. Unfortunately, one function it's lacking is a simple way to merge two or more columns ...