Excel can be a time sink. If you are tired of wrestling with VLOOKUPs, filtering data, and text manipulation, it’s time to adopt these key Excel functions and shortcuts.

Learn how to fill blank cells in Excel effortlessly with dynamic array functions like SCAN, REDUCE, and LAMBDA. Handle Excel ...

Shift+F3: Press these keys to insert a function Alt+F8: Do this if you want to create, run, edit, or delete a macro Alt+F11: Do you want to open the Microsoft Visual Basic For Applications Editor?

Open the Excel software on your desktop and open the Excel spreadsheet that contains the function you want to edit. Click the "VBA" button in the "Developer" tab or ribbon. Your VBA code opens.

M any use Excel for basic tables, but you need to go beyond simple sums. If your formulas are getting clunky, conditional ...

In Excel, the RAND function generates a random number between 0 and 1. Note; however, that every time you enter new data and press the Enter key, the list of random numbers you just created changes.

And because Excel recalculates formulas every time you press the Enter key and every time you save and exit, the numbers will never be saved anywhere. NOTE: RAND numbers are between 0 and 1.

The Recommended Charts tool in Excel is a key part of this process. Using the chart function, spreadsheet administrators can generate a chart in a few clicks, choosing a chart type, as well as ...

In Excel 2003, choose Subtotals from the Data menu. This time, select Sum from the Function dropdown. Uncheck the Unit Price and Units In Stock in the Add Subtotal To list and check Units In Stock.

The PMT function is an Excel Financial function that returns the periodic payment for an annuity. The formula for the PMT function is PMT(rate,nper,pv, [fv], [type]). The NPV function returns the ...

If you’d like to learn about XLOOKUP (), read How to use the newish XLOOKUP () dynamic array function in Excel. I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system.