Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?

Discover 5 advanced Excel drop-down techniques to create dynamic, auto-updating lists and improve your data management skills.

With an impressive 1 billion users and a penetration rate of 99% within the world's businesses, Microsoft Excel has become an essential tool in almost every office and industry. Excel's functions ...

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Advanced list solutions are easy thanks to Excel's Table object. If you need a dynamic list, try one of these techniques. The article Five ways to take advantage of Excel list features showed five ...

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