Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with confidence.

Imagine you’re working on a massive Excel spreadsheet, trying to sift through rows upon rows of data to find specific information. You’ve tried VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, but they just don’t cut it for what ...

The VLOOKUP function in Microsoft Excel literally means vertical lookup. It’s a search function for querying values in the cell of a column. This function searches for the data relative to the entries ...

Which Excel formula should you pick? This video provides a framework for selecting the right function, clarifying the differences between VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH, FILTER, and SUMIFS. Chapters: 0 ...

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...