Many of the formulas in my spreadsheets are long and complicated. When I need to make an adjustment, I could click on the Formula bar and edit the formula in the target cell, but I prefer to keep my ...

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 ...

Anthropic has introduced Claude for Excel, a new service allowing users to work with the AI assistant directly within ...

In the screenshot below, when the first and last initials of the names in columns A and B are typed into cells C2, C3, and C4 ...

Any program that doesn't do what you expect or let you make changes to something you should be able to edit is frustrating, and Excel is no exception. When it comes to Excel not permitting the ...

Microsoft Excel allows users to edit a cell in the cell itself. However, if you need to use a lot of big and complicated formulas, you might need to use the Formula bar. On the other hand, if you need ...

If Excel is not highlighting cells in the formula, read this post to know how to fix the issue. The default behavior of Excel is to highlight the cells that are part of a formula when a user ...

If you have a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with a lot of formulas where you don't anticipate the results and inputs will change, it can sometimes be easier to simply replace those formulas with their ...

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 ...

Formulas are one of the most important components of an Excel sheet and as such, deserve–warrant–protection. You don’t want users accidentally changing formulas and impacting the purpose of your work.