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 ...

While Excel is renowned for its versatility in calculations and data visualization, it can also do the job just fine as a ...

I've been helping readers find the best deals for over five years. If you’ve never worked with spreadsheets before, just opening Microsoft Excel can feel intimidating. The program has so many ...

Create a CRM using Excel with dropdown customer selection and FILTER plus XLOOKUP, saving time while keeping leads and deals ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

Have you ever found yourself drowning in spreadsheets, endlessly scrolling through rows of data, or manually fixing errors that seem to multiply by the hour? For many, Excel is both a lifeline and a ...