The Alt+Enter shortcut isn't limited to new formulas you write—you can go back and clean up any messy formulas at any time.

For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that ...

Discover how Excel's Goal Seek reverses calculations to find input values from known outcomes and enhances your data analysis skills.

When you’re filling in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, the idea of an international competition testing those skills is probably far from your mind. Yet Excel ha ...

Here's how to create your own animated Christmas tree in Excel: Open up a new spreadsheet. Click the triangle button in the ...

Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets. Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.

The PMT function is an Excel Financial function that returns the periodic payment for an annuity. The formula for the PMT function is PMT(rate,nper,pv, [fv], [type]). The NPV function returns the net ...

Microsoft is adding a new COPILOT function to Excel, putting generative AI right into the spreadsheet grid. The tool lets users type simple text prompts in cells to sort data, create summaries, or ...

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 ...