In most counting scenarios in Excel, COUNTBLANK reliably counts blank cells, and COUNTA reliably counts populated cells.

There are two ways to fix this cause of the #SPILL! error. First, select the entire spill range (or at least the cell or ...

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...

Yes, there is someone at the heart of every marketing department that is determined to come up with more acronyms, because that always makes everything better. We’ve already got top of funnel content, ...

Your iPhone uses the HEIC file format by default, but it isn't universally supported, making it a hassle to convert these images to JPG. That's where Apple's Shortcuts app comes in. I've written for ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a PDF file, wishing you could just pull the data into Excel and get to work? Whether it’s a financial report, a client list, or a data-heavy table, PDFs can ...

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Everyone on the planet has heard of Microsoft Excel. It’s the world’s analytical infrastructure. Estimates are that 1,500,000,000 people use Excel. Users love it at least twice a day and typically ...

Power Query often automatically adds a ‘Change Type’ step after loading data to try and assign data types to columns based on the first 1,000 rows. If your data includes inconsistent types, such as ...

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

“Hey, ChatGPT, how many R‘s are there in the word ‘strawberry’?” “There are two R‘s in the word ‘strawberry.'” “Are you sure? Because there are three.” “Actually, there are two R‘s in ‘strawberry.’ ...