Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with confidence.

Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?

In Microsoft Excel, there are a variety of categories of functions such as Math and Trigonometry, Statistical, Financial, Logical, Text, and more. A Text function changes how a number appears by ...