It is common knowledge that the VLOOKUP function cannot return results that are “to the left” of a given range, and this problem is solved by XLOOKUP, which additionally allows you to search the range from the beginning or from the end. However, what if these functions need to return more results? To do this, you used to need to use array formulas, but today this is performed in a much easier way…
When we create a column chart to visualize data, the columns are often of different heights. We evaluate where the best sales were achieved visually or add data labels and then make the conclusion based on the appropriate numbers. Excel does not yet have conditional formatting for charts, but there’s a trick you can use to automatically determine the highest value in a series.
Automatic saving of Excel documents has been around for a very long time. If you go to Excel Options, in the Save section, you will see the option to Save Autorecover Information Every… and the number of minutes after which the saving is performed. However, this works if your computer resets or for some other reason stops working. With the advent of the OneDrive repository and storing documents on it, we got a new, better Autosave…
Although Excel recognizes only two types of data: numbers and text, sometimes you’ll be working with Boolean values, such as TRUE and FALSE expressions. There is a simple trick to convert these values into ones and zeros respectively, so that you can add them more easily, and you will find out how to do this in a short “recipe” that follows.
More recently, Microsoft Copilot, an AI-based assistant, has become an integral part of Excel in all its versions. Now it can help you, in English or another language, analyze data, create charts, offer you the appropriate Excel function, or show you its syntax. To put a long story short, it can make your daily work much more productive!