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

Have you ever felt overwhelmed staring at a massive Excel spreadsheet, unsure how to extract the exact data you need? Whether you’re managing sales figures, tracking inventory, or analyzing project ...

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 ...

=LET (Spend,SUMIF (T_Budget [Category],E2,T_Budget [Cost]),IFS (Spend>F2,"Over budget",Spend=F2,"Budget hit",Spend> (F2*0.9), ...

If you're tired of repeated calculations, hard-to-read formulas, and sluggish Excel worksheets, the LET function is your ...

When manipulating large amounts of data in an Excel spreadsheet, it can be challenging or time-consuming to select specific items by hand. This is where the data filtering feature of the program can ...

Microsoft releases a major update to the Excel for Windows interface, including a totally modernised "Get Data" dialogue that ...

You can't use a SUM() function to sum a filtered list, unless you intend to evaluate hidden and unhidden values. Here's how to sum only the values that meet your filter's criteria. Filters are a ...

How to return the top or bottom n records without a filter or PivotTable in Excel Your email has been sent Returning the top or bottom n records of a data set in Excel isn’t difficult, and there are ...

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.