The text trap: If you select numbers and the status bar stays blank (or only shows the Count), your numbers are formatted as text—and Excel can't sum words! This tells you that you should click the ...

Discover how to calculate a payout ratio using Excel with our easy guide. Learn the formula and steps to evaluate dividends per share and earnings per share effectively.

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship finals were held in Las Vegas on Dec. 2 and 3 Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

It's cleaner and less cluttered: The double-unary operator is the most concise way to apply a mathematical coercion operation to an array. For example, if you have a complex nested array formula, two ...

"Who doesn't want to be the spreadsheet champion?" That is what the co-founders of the UK Microsoft Excel chapter said when explaining how the everyday computer program Microsoft Excel became a ...