Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?

We have created sample data containing sales of 6 different companies in four consecutive months (from January to April). The Total Sales sheet represents the total number of sales in all four months ...

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...

In addition to listing data, you can also use Excel to manipulate data. For example, you can compute sales, determine inventory or calculate nearly anything. However, rather than manually entering a ...

In addition to storing typed data in each cell of a spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel allows you to perform functions on one cell and show the result in another cell. The most basic function, a link, ...