Excel uses the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language to generate functions used within the spreadsheet. Most developers use Excel functions to automate processes such as importing data from a ...

If you’ve ever found yourself endlessly repeating the same formulas or tasks in Excel, you’re not alone. We’ve all been there—copying, pasting, and tweaking formulas across workbooks, only to realize ...

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

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Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

One of the most underused lookup and reference functions in Microsoft Excel is the DROP function. This powerful yet simple ...