Many of the formulas in my spreadsheets are long and complicated. When I need to make an adjustment, I could click on the Formula bar and edit the formula in the target cell, but I prefer to keep my ...

Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel 2019 ...

Any program that doesn't do what you expect or let you make changes to something you should be able to edit is frustrating, and Excel is no exception. When it comes to Excel not permitting the ...

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Back in April 2014, I wrote about the first release of Microsoft’s Excel for iPad, and I found it to have a well-designed UI and most of the features of the desktop version. It was missing some things ...

Excel formulas are powerful, but they have their limits. I used to rely on complex nested formulas that take forever to build and are difficult to troubleshoot, but I have started leaning more heavily ...