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Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...

Many use Excel for basic tables, but you need to go beyond simple sums. If your formulas are getting clunky, conditional functions are the smarter, hidden-in-plain-sight option. They handle complex ...