Speed up Excel cleanup with smarter wildcards. We compare three methods and show start or end matching your lists actually need.

Regex patterns help search text strings efficiently (e.g., emails, digits, specific sequences) using symbols. Excel provides predefined regex functions (REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE) to ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

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 ...

This tutorial will explain how to find a value in an Excel column using the Find function in VBA. Excel will highlight all of the cells that correspond to your search. How to search data using the ...

Microsoft Excel is an undisputed king when it comes to working with numbers and data. Whether you're a student or a working ...

Q. I am trying to create a formula in our accounting system, but I keep getting errors. What can I do to get the formula to work? A. All Excel users know how powerful formulas are, but sometimes it ...

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 ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

My approach to PPC is analytical. I realized early in my career that if I focused on developing my ability to manipulate and interpret performance data, the optimizations become obvious. Leaning into ...

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 ...

Q. I have an Excel workbook that contains many tabs. We have a “Total” tab, but the formulas to sum all of those tabs gets very complicated. Plus, new worksheets get added and the formulas have to be ...