Excel isn't hard, just learn the right tricks early enough.

Stop painting cells and use conditional formatting to build accessible, formula-ready, and automated Excel spreadsheets.

Duplicate entries can throw off your calculations and make your lists unreliable. Use Excel’s built-in tools to find duplicates: Go to the Home tab Click Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules ...

Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new platforms promise automation and out-of-the-box intelligence, many teams continue to rely on ...

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

Here we will go through how Excel is structured, where you will find important and smart functions, and various peculiarities you should know. In short, we’ll show you how to make the program work for ...

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier ...

Scrolling through rows of billing data, discovery deadlines, and other Excel related information to manually highlight follow-up items can feel like a never-ending chore. With the use of Excel’s ...

Have you ever spent hours perfecting your Excel spreadsheet, only to watch your carefully crafted formatting fall apart the moment you insert a new row? It’s a maddeningly common issue for Excel users ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...