I started writing a series of blogs on the use of Excel spreadsheets for circuit design on the now-defunct Microcontroller Central. Those blogs, though separate from this blog and future ones that I ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

Q. I have an Excel workbook that contains many tabs. We have a “Total” tab, but the formulas to sum all of those tabs gets very complicated. Plus, new worksheets get added and the formulas have to be ...

Excel validation lists avoid blanks and errors with TOCOL(ignore) plus FILTER; the spill range stays stable across worksheets.

Using the lookup table device in a PSoC left me a little confused with all the options. So I used Excel to help me out. It is no secret to my legions of followers (Hi, Mom!) that I enjoy working with ...

Q. I am trying to create a formula in our accounting system, but I keep getting errors. What can I do to get the formula to work? A. All Excel users know how powerful formulas are, but sometimes it ...