However, if the formula results in an error, IFERROR “takes over” and produces an alternative result. The alternatives could be text such as “Invalid,” “Not Found,” “Other,” or a number such as 0. You ...

Errors can occur in Excel due to users typing the wrong formula references, accidentally deleting an important cell or row in the spreadsheet, and more.

Avoid misleading results in Excel! Learn the pitfalls of the Percent Of function and how to replace it with precise ...

The #NUM error occurs in your Excel spreadsheet when a function or formula contains invalid numeric values. Remove #NUM errors this way!

According to Konczal, an error in the Excel coding of Reinhart-Rogoff's major study on public debt casts the entire study into doubt (and it was quite an error.) ...

While they did admit the Excel coding error, their statement said that they “object to in the strongest terms” the accusation of selective data omission.

The incident has sparked widespread criticism among students and added to longstanding concerns about the university’s ...

Over at The Baseline Scenario, law professor James Kwak, says that what has been generally under-reported about the London Whale debacle is how badly Excel failed as a financial modeling program.

The post mortem of his trades revealed extensive use of Excel, including manual copying and pasting between workbooks and a number of formula errors that resulted in underestimation of risk.

In response, Reinhart and Rogoff have acknowledged the coding error, defended their other decisions and claimed that they never asserted that debt necessarily causes slow growth.

The article describes how to ignore zeros in a formula by using Excel's AVERAGEIF function, which is useful when dealing with incomplete worksheets or formulas that might result in zero values ...