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

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Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

I’ve been helping an administrative assistant (who also happens to be a close relative—see what comes of having a reputation for using technology?) who needs a database on her job to track employee ...

It's all about manipulating the text.

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...