Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions.

Concatenate merges the data you have inserted into columns into its own cell or column in Excel. Let’s take a look at how to use concatenate in Excel.

If you’d like to learn about XLOOKUP (), read How to use the newish XLOOKUP () dynamic array function in Excel. I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system.

Excel’s BYCOL() and BYROW() functions evaluate data across columns and rows, returning an array result set allowing you to bypass a lot of work.

In this scenario, the data comes from a SQL database, a CSV file, and a PDF file. We’ll demonstrate how to use Excel’s business intelligence tools to tackle this task efficiently.

Use Excel’s “Get Data from Folder” feature to import and combine multiple trial balance files into a single query. Clean and transform data using Power Query to prepare it for analysis.