The 4% retirement rule suggests you can safely withdraw 4% of your portfolio in year one of retirement, then adjust that amount for inflation each year for 30 years without running out of money. But how does this actually play out year by year? This article builds a complete Excel model to...Read more
In this example, we'll use SEQUENCE to generate all dates in a given month. Creating a complete list of dates for a specific month is a common Excel task with many practical applications, from building project timelines and work schedules to generating calendar views and tracking daily data...Read more
In May 2025, I ran a survey asking Exceljet newsletter subscribers what version of Excel they use most. This is an important question for Excel learning because the new dynamic array engine has completely changed how many formulas are written. These changes started rolling out after Excel...Read more
In this example, the goal is to look up and retrieve all names for a given team and return them in a single cell as a comma‑separated list. At the core, this is a lookup problem, but the twist is that we want to return multiple matches for each team, not just one. That means...Read more
Have you ever had Excel tell you two numbers are different when they look the same? This can be quite unsettling. You keep checking and re-checking numbers that look identical, and yet Excel insists they are different. Is Excel broken? Do you need glasses? Don't worry, it's not your fault....Read more
In this example, the goal is to calculate a total quantity for each color across the two ranges shown in the worksheet. The two ranges are "non-contiguous", which means they are not connected or touching. Both ranges contain a list of colors in the first column and quantities in the second...Read more
This worksheet demonstrates a clever way to look up prices that change based on a selected tier. Imagine a pricing system where the cost of a product depends on both the product color and a tier (e.g., "Bronze," "Silver," or "Gold"). The challenge is to pull the correct price based on both...Read more
