Flash Fill, introduced to Microsoft Excel in 2013, was a time-saving game changer. It recognizes patterns in your data, and uses those patterns to suggest ways to automatically fill in the rest of ...

When you want to combine values in Microsoft Excel, instead of complex expressions or VBA, opt for Power Query – it’s fast and easy. Image: Diego/Adobe Stock ...

Enter the base value in a blank cell which you'll use to increase the value of existing cells. As an example, to add 10 to each cell, enter "10" (without the quotation marks here and throughout).

Specifically, you can use Power Query to import a single dataset like an Excel workbook, a table from a website, or a database. Alternatively, you can import multiple datasets from worksheets in an ...

Step 1 of Microsoft Excel's Lookup Wizard shows the cell range it will search. Microsoft Excel can handle data tables with hundreds or even thousands of rows and columns. That's great, unless you ...

In this example, the cursor will now be active in cell B4. Enter =B3 and click Ctrl+Enter. Now, convert the formulas into values so that you can sort and analyze the data. Select the data by clicking ...