The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

The @ symbol can also appear in regular formulas outside of tables when Excel thinks you're trying to reference a single value from a range. If you see it pop up unexpectedly, it usually means Excel ...

Microsoft Excel uses double quotation marks to signify text within formulas. When it sees these marks, it uses the text and discards the quotes. Typing quotation marks directly into a cell is not an ...

Have you ever followed a YouTube tutorial, carefully copied an Excel formula, and hit “Enter,” only to be met with an error or baffling results? It’s a ...