Whole-column references in Excel are silent performance killers, often forcing the program to manage a range of over a million rows. As a result, they can significantly slow your workbook's ...

Structured references in Excel often get a bad reputation for being overly complex, but this perception usually stems from misunderstanding their purpose and functionality. Unlike traditional cell ...

Office Q&A: Excel referencing, Word field codes, and a table trick Your email has been sent It’s been a month of easy answers for the most part. The problems seem big, but as usual, there’s an easy ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

Much of the data that you use Excel to analyze comes in a list form. You might need to sort the data, filter it, sum it, and perhaps even chart it. Excel tables provide superior tools for working with ...

Microsoft Excel 2010 can convert a worksheet to a data table to help you quickly analyze your related data in formatted rows and columns. When you need to expand the table layout, apply the Home tab ...

Design is best, but when you're stuck with an existing data structure, it helps to know how to work around trouble. Susan Harkins explains. Excel sheets grow — sometimes by adding new functionality, ...

Want to get more out of Excel? At Microsoft’s inaugural Data Insights Summit last month, several experts offered a slew of suggestions for getting the most out of Excel 2016. Here are 10 of the best. ...