Launch Microsoft Excel. Enter data into the spreadsheet or use existing data. Select the cell you want to place the result Enter the formula Press Enter. Launch Microsoft Excel. Enter your data or use ...

They may look harmless, but they're certainly capable of turning your spreadsheets into traffic jams.

Excel workbooks are the next step after you’ve mastered the single Excel spreadsheet. Going back to the ledger idea we used in our Excel spreadsheets guide, think of the workbook as the ledger (or ...

Cascading drop-down lists—where choosing a category like "Fruit" narrows the next list to "Apple" or "Pear"—are a staple of high-level data entry in Excel. The old INDIRECT method works, but it's ...