The SCAN function lives in a single cell and spills the results down the column, ensuring my totals are always structurally ...

Multiplying an entire Excel column by the results of a formula can be a little tricky, especially if the formula is complicated or subject to change. To simplify to process, use an absolute reference ...

Microsoft Excel's spreadsheet design allows you to quickly calculate values separated into two columns and replicate this calculation without having to manually recreate the formula for each row. As ...

Whole-column references in Excel are silent performance killers, often forcing the program to manage a range of over a ...

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); ...

When you want to fill a column in Excel with a given formula or value, you can do it the old fashioned way (select cells or the column header, CTRL+V to paste) or use can do it the much faster way by ...

The January 2017 JofA article “Data Mining Your General Ledger With Excel” presents a step-by-step, formula-based approach to extracting general ledger data and then scrubbing them so that they can be ...

It’s not hard to add an alternating band format to a table by applying a table style. It’s quick and easy, but it’s limited. You’ll get a single-row fill color that alternates with a row of white (or ...