Build stable, high-performance dashboards using REPT formulas and UNICHAR symbols instead of conditional formatting.

Merge lists even with typos and inconsistent names. Tune the similarity threshold, use a transform table, and audit results ...

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Using Excel’s PivotTables and PivotCharts, you can quickly analyze large data sets, summarize key data, and present it in easy-to-read format. Here’s how to get started with these powerful tools.

Power Pivot excels in handling large datasets and performing complex analytics, using data modeling and DAX expressions, but ...

In this post, we will show you how to pull data from another sheet in Excel. While copying and pasting data is simple, pulling data from one sheet to another offers significant advantages in Excel.

Q. In your November Tech Q&A article on Excel’s Scenario Manager, you mentioned two other “what-if” tools: Goal Seek and Data Table. Can you show how those work like you did with Scenario Manager?

Slicers provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface for filtering data in a spreadsheet. Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest ...

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