Excel has a versatile If, Then function built right into it. We’ll show you how to use the IF function in Excel with a number of helpful examples.

Cells in Excel are referred to using relative or absolute references. A formula with relative references changes when the cell's position does. If, for example, a cell has a formula "=A1" and you ...

More advanced common Excel functions include using VLOOKUP to find specific data, and using IF to make a conditional formula. A formula is an equation that can use a function to perform an ...

Open the Excel 2010 spreadsheet containing the information where you want to perform your count. Click on the cell where you want the result of the COUNTIFS function to appear.

Excel’s BYCOL() and BYROW() functions evaluate data across columns and rows, returning an array result set allowing you to bypass a lot of work.

The first function anyone should know tells Excel to carry out basic arithmetic. Let’s say you wanted the numbers in cell A2 and cell B2 to be added together in cell C2. All you’d do is enter ...