Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?

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

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

Anatomy of an Excel formula: Using functions to perform calculations Your email has been sent If you’re fairly new to Microsoft Excel, you’ve probably learned to enter data into cells to provide ...

You can sum up entire columns or rows in Microsoft Excel using the AutoSum feature. The AutoSum tool automatically selects a column or row of numbers, but you can select any set of numbers by clicking ...

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