If you use Microsoft Excel, you probably know the popular spreadsheet tool automatically numbers each row in a spreadsheet outside the columns of the sheet itself. But often you want to have a column ...

In addition to listing data, you can also use Excel to manipulate data. For example, you can compute sales, determine inventory or calculate nearly anything. However, rather than manually entering a ...

I have a set of spreadsheets where the data (text) is color-coded by row. Would it be feasible to write a formula or script to count how many of what color rows are spread across the workbooks in my ...

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn’t. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem. The article How to easily ...

Switching to XLOOKUP transformed how I build spreadsheets by removing fragile column counting and hidden lookup traps.