For years, I solved complex spreadsheet problems the same way: adding helper columns, stacking increasingly nested formulas, and, when things became especially tangled, resorting to Excel’s VBA macros ...

Learn how to add a highlight to expose groups in your Microsoft Excel data using a helper column and Excel’s conditional formatting feature. The article, How to use a border to discern groups more ...

Have you ever found yourself endlessly dragging formulas across rows or columns in Excel, only to realize there’s got to be a better way? Maybe you’ve spent hours creating helper columns or ...