Microsoft Excel's Formula by Example helps automate repetitive tasks in structured tables in Excel for the Web. The tool is similar to Flash Fill, though it generates dynamic formulas that update with ...

Auto Fill is a feature in Excel that fills cells with data that follows a sequence and creates a string of numbers, dates, and days to apply formatting from one cell to adjacent cells. The Auto Fill ...

With Microsoft Excel, you can simplify data entry by adding a drop-down list to a cell, allowing users to pick an option from the list instead of entering data. You can further tailor the spreadsheet ...

As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

Q. I enjoy learning about ways to increase my efficiency and save time in Microsoft Excel. Do you have any other tips to share? A. Flash Fill is one of my favorite features in Excel because it can do ...

Let’s say you have student information in a worksheet where students’ last names, first names, and ID numbers are in Column A. If you want their first name and last name to appear in Column B, you ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...