Q. I receive Excel spreadsheets regularly that contain dates. I have to manually look up the day of the week that represents these dates. Are there any functions that can help speed this process along ...

An Excel email address list should contain nothing but the addresses themselves. Yet if the spreadsheet received its data from an external form, the column may contain irrelevant text. One cell may ...

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.

Q. Traditional PivotTables have always intimidated me. I see there is a new Excel function called PIVOTBY. What is the difference between it and the traditional PivotTable? With the PIVOTBY function, ...

The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...

Sometimes, you might need to collect the domain names from a long list of webpage URLs. This post will show you how to extract domain names from URLs using Microsoft Excel. This can be useful if you ...

Excel spreadsheet databases work because users can filter the data inside these workbooks. Filters are conditions you specify in databases and spreadsheets to extract only the precise, requested ...

Speed up Excel cleanup with smarter wildcards. We compare three methods and show start or end matching your lists actually need.

If you're still manually sifting through massive spreadsheets or relying on clunky, old-school sorting tools, you're doing it the hard way. Excel has the powerful FILTER function, a built-in solution ...