ChatGPT can assist with complex Excel formulas, including a VLOOKUP plus IFERROR to return not listed when no match appears.

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 ...

Microsoft has woven its generative AI technology throughout Microsoft 365, the company’s productivity suite. Its Copilot AI assistant is most often used in M365 apps for text-oriented actions, such as ...

Ever feel like you’re wasting precious time setting up the same Excel workbook formats repeatedly? By creating and using templates in Excel, you can eliminate those repetitive formatting tasks and ...

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

Excel is a rich and intelligent software, and a good knowledge of how it works means you’ll be able to use it for many of your business needs, including creating a Point-of-Sale (POS) system. A good ...

Q. In your November Tech Q&A article on Excel’s Scenario Manager, you mentioned two other “what-if” tools: Goal Seek and Data Table. Can you show how those work like you did with Scenario Manager?

Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project for a large paper-products manufacturer—a job that, to hear her ...

You may be good at Excel, but you’re spending way too much time clicking around.

Slicers provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface for filtering data in a spreadsheet. Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest ...