Excel groups functions into 12 categories: Compatibility, Cube, Database, Date and Time, Engineering, Financial, Information, Logical, Lookup & Reference, Math & Trigonometry, Statistical and Text.

If you need to conditionally split values into multiple columns in Microsoft Excel, consider using the IF() function. Here's how.

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality.

Save this for the spreadsheet jocks in your office—we'd bet even the experts don't know all of these formula tips.