Fragmenting your data across many Excel tabs is a common habit that silently kills file performance, introduces hidden errors ...

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.

Q. I have used the filter feature in Excel, but what does the Advanced Filter feature do? A. There is a simple filter feature available in Excel, which is very useful. However, sometimes you may need ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...

Imagine you’re working on a massive Excel spreadsheet, trying to sift through rows upon rows of data to find specific information. You’ve tried VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, but they just don’t cut it for what ...

Office Q&A: An advanced Excel filter to match multiple values and a PowerPoint picture timesaver Your email has been sent This month, Susan Harkins introduces an Excel user to advanced filtering and ...

How to link a single slicer to two or more Excel PivotTables Your email has been sent Slicers are a great tool for filtering a data set or PivotTable. Learn how to use one slicer to manipulate more ...

Can Excel sort by color? Absolutely. In addition to sorting by values, Excel can sort by cell color, font color, and cell icon. First, you must you must define the colors for your sort columns/fields.