Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions.

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, but we've selected the most popular, from date and time functions to mathematics and simple data manipulation.

Like with budgets, Excel comes with health templates preloaded with formulas, functions and graphics to make tracking easier. Here’s Microsoft’s complete list of all Excel functions, but here ...

Build a custom Excel function library in minutes! Learn how to use VBA, create a personal macro workbook, and design a custom ribbon tab.

TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

On Monday, the company announced that its Copilot AI is now available as an Excel function for Microsoft 365 insiders. That means you can add COPILOT to a formula and then use natural language in a ...

This month’s column shows how to use the remarkably versatile AGGREGATE function in Excel.

Excel offers three functions for calculating the internal rate of return, and I recommend you use all three.

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000. It's fallen off current Excel menus, but you can still use ...

Find out how to perform financial analysis through Microsoft Excel, a widely used business management software among finance professionals and investors.