Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might imagine. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.

Learn how GROUPBY passes both subset and full arrays into LAMBDA in Excel, letting you compute percent shares fast and explain results clearly.

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FORECAST.ETS applies an exponential triple smoothing (ETS) algorithm to create forecasts that can include trend and seasonal ...

The SCAN function lives in a single cell and spills the results down the column, ensuring my totals are always structurally and mathematically correct. The SCAN function has three arguments: ...

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