Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. You’re probably familiar with surveys that ask you to rate yourself on a scale ...

Sparklines in Microsoft Excel are charts—tiny little charts that display inline with the data because they fit into a cell, usually adjacent to the data they’re evaluating. With a quick glance, not ...

Nasdaq has put forward a proposal that would significantly tighten its approach to companies falling out of compliance with ...

In some of our previous updates, we have discussed how value is now outperforming growth on a relative basis. Now, we do not want to beat a dead a horse when we talk about this topic, as we have ...