Have you ever found yourself staring at rows and rows of budget and actual data, wondering how to make sense of it all? You’re not alone. Budget versus actual analysis is one of those tasks that feels ...

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

With the functions I'll discuss here, you can make data cleanup much easier in Excel. They allow you to extract, style, split, and join text to get what you need without wasting hours doing it ...

Find out how to perform financial analysis through Microsoft Excel, a widely used business management software among finance ...

Q. Traditional PivotTables have always intimidated me. I see there is a new Excel function called PIVOTBY. What is the difference between it and the traditional PivotTable? With the PIVOTBY function, ...

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it ...

Microsoft Office's Excel application allows users to store, model and manipulate data sets. Excel spreadsheets organize this data into worksheets, each with a number of rows and columns. Each row or ...

What it does: Getting your data into analysis-ready format can be half the battle (or more) when using a spreadsheet. Microsoft Data Explorer Preview for Excel is designed to help by easing data ...