Microsoft Excel relies on two fundamental reference types when addressing other cells. Absolute references -- which are denoted with a "$" -- lock a reference, so it will not change when copying the ...

Q: My partner says there’s an F4 shortcut to creating absolute cell references in Excel formulas, but for the life of me I can’t make it work. What am I doing wrong? A: Your partner is right, but ...

Is there a way to hold down shift/ctrl, etc to make a cell reference an absolute reference when entering a formula instead of having to go back and enter $?

Open a blank spreadsheet in Excel. Label cell A1 "Daily Sales." Label cell B1 "Last 2 Days." Label cell C1 "Running Total," and then set column width to 15 for these three columns. Change the color of ...

I used to play formula roulette every time I dragged the fill handle, hoping Excel wouldn't misinterpret my intentions. Was I supposed to lock the column, the row, or both? Then, the dollar signs ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

Here we will go through how Excel is structured, where you will find important and smart functions, and various peculiarities you should know. In short, we’ll show you how to make the program work for ...