As a spreadsheet software program, Microsoft Excel has many useful features for a small business's productivity. Chief among these is the ability to use formulas to make various calculations with the ...

Placing spreadsheet data into a table quickly formats it and makes it easy to work with and analyze. Here’s how to use this basic yet powerful Excel tool. Tables are one of the fundamental tools in ...

At the sheet level, conditional running totals require focused expressions, but an Excel PivotTable requires only a few field swaps. Susan Harkins shows you how. An expression to return a simple ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Return on investment (ROI) measures the amount of ...

BYCOL is the ultimate tool for scalable column math in Excel. By replacing dozens of individual formulas with one "brain" cell, you eliminate the risk of manual errors and broken ranges. It's the ...

Adding a condition to a simple revenue sheet might spell trouble in Microsoft Excel, but don’t worry–a simple conditional function can handle the request. Subtotals are common in a lot of Excel ...