Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

As someone with a tech-related job, I’m regularly bombarded with questions about the best smartphones, why emails might have suddenly stopped showing up, and how to back up photos and videos. There’s ...

Let’s face it—Microsoft Excel is one of those tools we all seem to need at some point, whether it’s for managing budgets, organizing data, or tackling that last-minute project. But if you’ve ever ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

I discovered artificial intelligence tool GPT Excel in my quest to cut down on all the busywork it takes to create and update spreadsheets. Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist ...

Numbers on iPhone is a free, mobile alternative to Microsoft Excel that lets you create multiple spreadsheets, add ...

Available for Microsoft 365 Copilot users, the new agents will help you create, edit, and analyze your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

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.

Subtraction is the easiest way to count days between two dates in Excel. You can use the arithmetic operator – (minus sign) to subtract one date from another to find the number of days between them.

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

Enter your data or use an existing data. Type into the cell where you want to place the result =SERIESSUM(A2,0,2,D2:D4). Press Enter to see the result. The result is 0.504711076. There are two other ...

Q. Could you explain how the AGGREGATE function works in Excel? A. AGGREGATE is possibly the most versatile function in Excel. Think of it as an advanced version of the SUBTOTAL function that offers ...