Microsoft Excel spreadsheets frequently use similar formulas along columns. For example, you might need to keep a running total or tabulate a list of product inventories. Repetitively typing each ...

The SORT and SORTBY functions let you extract certain columns and rows from a dataset and sort them in a certain order, all while preserving the source data. Even though they work in similar ways, ...

Q. Is it possible to sort a column in Excel using formulas rather than the Data tab’s Sort tool, so the sort process is performed automatically as I update my data? A. Excel has announced a new ...

Reference: The cell or range of cells or range of cells for which you want to return the column number. It is optional. You will notice that the cell will return the cell number of the cell that ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...