Elissa Fink, formerly the self-styled queen of Excel pivot tables, remembers the day she hit the wall with the spreadsheet. She had a massive data project and a client presentation the next day and ...

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.

In Excel spreadsheets, complex formulas are difficult to enter without making mistakes. Microsoft Excel’s LAMBDA() function can make such errors easier to find. LAMBDA functions are new to Microsoft ...