While I'll always argue that SUM is my favorite and most-used Excel formula, there are plenty of other powerful functions included in the software. These features go far past using Excel as a digital ...

Here's how to create a pivot table in Excel to slice and dice your data, letting you perform in-depth analyses and spot important trends.

Pivot tables are one of several Excel tools for extracting meaning out of large groups of numeric data. They can be applied whenever raw data in a spreadsheet or database has to be summarized.

Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it It's so much easier to create, summarize, and analyze data now - no complex manual formulas required.

Integration into Existing Sheets If a business or other organization is using spreadsheet data managed within Excel, using the chart function within Excel aids integration of the data.

You use these functions when you want to find values based on the value in a corresponding cell. Thanks to the newish dynamic array function XLOOKUP (), you now have more power and less confusion.