Excel gives the answer 10. If you have a mathematical background, you’ll know why Excel gives a different answer to such a simple calculation — and why, technically, Excel is right. If you don’t have ...

Array formulas let you perform calculations across entire ranges of data in a single formula. Hence, you can handle lightning-fast lookups, filtering, and sorting with just one po ...

While there are formulas and tools for performing simple functions like addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc. in Excel, exponential calculations could be a little complicated. There is no ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to calculate moving averages or rolling totals, only to end up frustrated by the constant need for manual adjustments? You’re not ...

If you need to find a particular value in an Excel sheet, the quickest way is to use a lookup formula. The most popular functions to use in these formulas are VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, which search across ...

One of the benefits of using Microsoft Excel to create business spreadsheets and charts is its numerous functions that make the program a powerful and precise calculator. You can use the ROUNDUP ...

Microsoft has issued a fix for the calculation bug that was discovered in Excel 2007: Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsofts Excel application—widely used by much of the ...

I don't usually cover random software bugs on Hardware 2.0 but since a few of you sent me links to this story I thought I'd post it for others. The Problem This issue was introduced when we were ...