Featured Formulas

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One of the most important skills to learn with Excel formulas is the concept of nesting. Put simply, nesting just means putting one function inside another. Nesting is super useful, but it does take some practice. You have to learn to read a formula from the inside out. The formulas below...Read more

Featured Functions

LET Function

The LET function lets you define named variables in a formula. There are two primary reasons you might want to do this: (1) to improve performance by eliminating redundant calculations and (2) to make more complex formulas easier to read and write. Once a variable is named, it can...Read more

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