Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, trying to keep your total rows accurate as your data grows or shrinks? It’s a common frustration—manually updating totals every time something ...

Microsoft is making some improvements to how formulas work in Excel, with a new feature called Dynamic Arrays that allows formulas to output values to more than one cell at a time. Microsoft has ...

Cascading drop-down lists—where choosing a category like "Fruit" narrows the next list to "Apple" or "Pear"—are a staple of high-level data entry in Excel. The old INDIRECT method works, but it's ...

In Microsoft Word, direct formatting is great when used conservatively, but removing it in a document littered with it is difficult. These Word tips might help. There are lots of ways to return the ...

Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel. The recent article How to generate random letters in Excel shows you how to generate random letters.