Excel is well known as a program that allows you to create complex tables of data. However, some people are less familiar with a special type of reference that comes with these tables: structured ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

Some Excel users have reported experiencing the Data source reference is not valid error while creating a pivot table in Excel. We will learn why this error occurs ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Learning to use Excel worksheets like relational databases can help you save time, eliminating duplication when managing large projects. A relational database is useful because information resides in ...

Although getting into the habit of naming tables in Excel can take some time if it's not something you usually do, here's why today's the day to start. First, if you're working with a large workbook ...

Microsoft Excel tables are a way to organize complex data into rows and columns, making your information easy to understand. Table styles let users add color and change the font of their tables. If ...

Many financial systems do a fine job of generating standard reports, but accountants often need more. In those cases, accountants can create custom solutions in Excel, but that approach has drawbacks.