Are you tired of staring at endless rows of data, trying to find insights, trends, or the "story" hidden within your spreadsheets? Do Pivot Tables and complex formulas give you a headache? Good news, Office Newbs! There's a game-changing feature built right into Microsoft Excel that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI)  to do the heavy lifting for you. It's called "Analyze Data,"  and it's like having a super-smart data analyst working for you, 24/7, inside Excel. Meet Your New

For years, helper columns have been the go-to solution in Excel. Need to clean text? Add a helper. Match keywords? Another helper. Determine a category? One more column. Before you know it, a simple spreadsheet turns into a maze. Modern Excel gives us a better option. The problem with helper columns Helper columns aren’t wrong , but they come with trade-offs: They clutter your worksheet They make spreadsheets harder to maintain They increase the chance of errors They often ex

If you’ve ever seen two dashes (--) inside an Excel formula and thought “What is that doing?”  — you’re not alone. The double dash, also called the double unary operator , is one of those small Excel tricks that looks strange at first but solves very real problems once you understand it. Excel doesn’t always treat values the way you expect. For example: Logical tests return TRUE or FALSE Functions like TEXTAFTER and TEXTSPLIT return text Functions like SUM don’t automatically

If you’ve been using Excel for a while, you’ve probably leaned on VLOOKUP  to pull information from a list or table. And while it’s been around forever, VLOOKUP also comes with a handful of limitations that make your spreadsheets more fragile than they need to be. Enter XLOOKUP —Excel’s modern, flexible, and far more powerful lookup function. In my newest video, I walk through exactly why XLOOKUP should replace VLOOKUP in your everyday workflow. The upgrade isn’t subtle… once