A 10-second habit that makes every formula in your workbook explain itself.

Named ranges are the secret to self-documenting Excel workbooks, but naming cells manually is a tedious chore. By using a simple selection trick, you can instantly map your headers to your data, ...

It may be a surprise to learn that you can define names of cells in Microsoft Excel instead of using the letter and number combinations. This makes it friendlier to read and understand. For example, ...

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 ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2022. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Using range names in ...

Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel 2019 ...