Format hierarchical financial data using formula-based conditional formatting rules. Build detailed Excel P&L layouts that ...

If you need a visual clue to hype a worksheet, use Excel’s Conditional Formatting feature to help values stand out. If you maintain inventory in an Excel worksheet, you probably need to know when ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel’s RANK.EQ() function ranks a set of values, but in a busy sheet, the top-ranking items might get lost. You can combine RANK.EQ() with a conditional formatting rule to highlight the top ...

Excel keeps a display layer and a data layer.

This tiny shortcut lets me paste exactly what I need, avoid unnecessary cleanup, and keep my Excel workflow moving.

Excel Conditional Formatting already lets you format cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells (see our conditional formatting tutorial for more details). Now ...

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); ...