There are many ways to find and retrieve data from a table or range based on a lookup value. In fact, because Microsoft often comes up with new, modernized alternatives, there are too many ways! So, ...

Five hidden Excel rules show helper columns, LET, and LAMBDA in action, cutting errors and making updates quick for any ...

Not only does Excel keep information organized in spreadsheets, it can also save you from manually typing data for each cell separately. Formulas compute information directly in Excel and ...

Press Windows+Z to rearrange how your duplicated Excel windows appear on your screen. Press Ctrl+Shift+; to insert the current time. Press Ctrl+; > Space > Ctrl+Shift+; to insert the current date and ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

I have a background that includes spreadsheets, programming, and electronics, so this book piqued my interest. I didn't run into any surprises until I thought a bit more about its contents and my ...

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); ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

Auditors know that journal-entry testing is one of many procedures they can use in addressing client data completeness and, hence, audit risk (see AU-C Section 240, Consideration of Fraud in a ...

The first thing to understand about Tableau is that it is a data visualization program. Data visualization programs empower CPAs and other users to render the results of analyses in sophisticated, ...