Microsoft Excel's Formula by Example helps automate repetitive tasks in structured tables in Excel for the Web. The tool is similar to Flash Fill, though it generates dynamic formulas that update with ...

Q. I enjoy learning about ways to increase my efficiency and save time in Microsoft Excel. Do you have any other tips to share? A. Flash Fill is one of my favorite features in Excel because it can do ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

Let’s say you have student information in a worksheet where students’ last names, first names, and ID numbers are in Column A. If you want their first name and last name to appear in Column B, you ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. We all know and love the Auto Fill feature in Excel. Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in your ...

Auto Fill is a feature in Excel that fills cells with data that follows a sequence and creates a string of numbers, dates, and days to apply formatting from one cell to adjacent cells. The Auto Fill ...

Powerful and complex, Microsoft Excel comes packed with so many tools that it’s often hard to know which tool can solve a particular problem. Ever feel like it’s easier to just keep doing things the ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...