Create robust, backward-compatible Excel workbooks by leveraging the structural power of the ROWS function.

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 ...

Stop your formulas from breaking by switching from grid-based coordinates (ROW) to stable table measurements (ROWS).

Have you ever stared at a beautifully organized table in Excel—rows and columns perfectly aligned—only to realize it’s a nightmare for analysis? Cross-tab layouts, while visually appealing, can feel ...

Excel 2007's new table feature eliminates the need to copy formulas; once you define a data range as a table, Excel will do it for you! Tables are new to Excel 2007 ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

When you're configuring data in a Microsoft Excel worksheet, you may realize that the information you entered in rows makes better sense in columns or vice versa. For example, you're especially likely ...