Tables, named ranges, line breaks, modern functions, and helper columns make Excel formulas easier to read, audit, and fix.

Excel's IF function validates a cell's contents, determining whether it meets criteria that you set. It provides no information beyond what your workbook already contains, but it analyzes the data ...

Each IF function in an Excel spreadsheet returns one of two messages. The first -- the "if" message -- displays if cells meet criteria that you specify. The second -- the "otherwise" message -- ...

If you decide to spill the results, you can then use the spilled range operator (#) to perform a calculation on the spilled ...

Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of ...

This post explains what is IFERROR function and how to use the function in Microsoft Excel. The IFERROR function was introduced in Excel as a logical function to handle errors that may occur within ...

Have you ever stared at a tangled web of Excel formulas, wondering if there’s a better way to make sense of it all? For many, Excel’s LAMBDA function feels like a cryptic puzzle—powerful but ...