Cells in Excel are referred to using relative or absolute references. A formula with relative references changes when the cell's position does. If, for example, a cell has a formula "=A1" and you copy ...

Don't panic—your Excel isn't broken. If your column letters suddenly turn into numbers, you've stumbled into R1C1 mode. While it looks like a glitch, it's actually a high-level tool that lets you ...

Sometimes the dollar sign in Microsoft Excel is just a dollar sign, used to indicate that a number reported by a business or in someone's personal finances is in U.S. currency. But the dollar sign in ...

Microsoft Excel usually thinks in directions: "look one cell to the left." That's fine until you move the formula and the reference gets lost. By knowing how to use the dollar ($) sign, you can tell ...