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Formulas are one of the most important components of an Excel sheet and as such, deserve–warrant–protection. You don’t want users accidentally changing formulas and impacting the purpose of your work.

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2006. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Is there a way to ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

Locking is a handy function in Excel that allows users to lock specific or all cells in a worksheet to prevent any intentional or unintentional editing of them. You can easily lock cells in a sheet by ...

Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel 2019 ...

Although Excel, the Microsoft Office spreadsheet program, has a few specialized financial formulas built in to the software program, the accounting format for spreadsheet cells has the most general ...

Excel formulas are a powerful way to quickly manipulate and display the data in your spreadsheets to your exact specifications. Once you've created an effective formula for your data, you may want to ...

When creating Microsoft Excel formulas, you can generate calculations using specific values—also known as hard-coding—or referencing other cells in the workbook. In this guide, I'll explain why ...