Have you ever found yourself endlessly dragging formulas across rows or columns in Excel, only to realize there’s got to be a better way? Maybe you’ve spent hours creating helper columns or ...

Reference: The cell or range of cells or range of cells for which you want to return the column number. It is optional. You will notice that the cell will return the cell number of the cell that ...

For years, I solved complex spreadsheet problems the same way: adding helper columns, stacking increasingly nested formulas, and, when things became especially tangled, resorting to Excel’s VBA macros ...