As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ...

Ditch manual sorting for live formulas that rank top performers, fastest times, and equal scores as data changes.

Published in Nature Communications, researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University built a computer made entirely ...

It replaced my date-filling workflow, and I'm not going back.

If your business uses spreadsheets, you may find it necessary to count the number of cells containing data in a worksheet. You might also need to determine how many cells are empty or if the values of ...

Have you ever found yourself sifting through endless rows of data, trying to confirm whether a specific item exists? It’s a tedious, error-prone process that can derail even the most organized ...

Q. Traditional PivotTables have always intimidated me. I see there is a new Excel function called PIVOTBY. What is the difference between it and the traditional PivotTable? With the PIVOTBY function, ...

The COUNTIFS function in Excel is a powerful and versatile tool for counting cells based on multiple criteria. It offers a significant advantage over the COUNTIF function, which is limited to handling ...