Introducing Excel’s STOCKHISTORY Function
The STOCKHISTORY function recently showed up in my non-beta version of Excel 365.
Its appearance was a surprise because it wasn't announced as a What's...
How to Use SUMPRODUCT in an Excel Table to Filter Any Number of Items
Excel 2007 introduced the powerful Table feature, as illustrated below. Tables allow you to sort and filter your data easily.
However, the filter capability has...
How to Perform Multiple Table Searches Using the SEARCH & SUMPRODUCT Functions in Excel
SUMPRODUCT is one of Excel's most-powerful worksheet functions. Here, for example, you can use it in one formula to search text in one cell...
Use Excel VBA to Test Report Calculation Times
I once exchanged email with an experienced Excel jockey who insisted that VLOOKUP was Excel’s fastest lookup method. It was even faster, he said,...
How to Debug INDEX in Excel
"I'm not a very experienced Excel user. Why does = INDEX(...) sometimes work and sometimes not.... :-)?" -- Suzan G.
Probably the best way to...
XLOOKUP vs VLOOKUP vs INDEX-MATCH vs SUMIFS
SUMIFS? Really?
Why is SUMIFS included among those lookup methods? I'll explain in a few minutes.
But first, let's look at the lookup methods shown in...
How to Use INDEX-MATCH, Part 2: The MATCH Function
In this three-part series, I'm showing you how to use INDEX-MATCH. In Part 1, I showed you how to use the INDEX function. Here,...
Why INDEX-MATCH Is Far Better Than VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP in Excel
(Download the workbook.)
Excel’s VLOOKUP function is more popular than the INDEX-MATCH function combination, probably because when Excel users need to look up data then a "lookup" function...
Show Top and Bottom Results in a Chart-Table
The workbook that supports the following figure does a lot of work!
First, it uses Power Query to download the weekly unemployment claims and the...
How to Fight Spreadsheet Hell with Three Excel Lookup Functions
(I wrote this long ago, and there's much to be added. It's high on my Update list. Charley)
Many Excel users build their reports like...
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
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