Tip: If Excel has trouble understanding elements of your data set — for example, failing to recognize column headers as such — try converting your data to table format first. (See our Excel ...

Structuring Your Data. Organizing unstructured data into a consistent format is the foundation of effective data cleaning. Excel provides several functions to help you reshape and align your data ...

AVERAGEIF and AVERAGEIFS aren't the only functions in Excel that calculate the average of a dataset. For example, the AVERAGE function produces a straightforward arithmetic mean of a set of data, and ...