Messy Excel formulas are more than just an eyesore—they're harder to maintain. Every repeated cell reference and tangled ...

Tables, named ranges, line breaks, modern functions, and helper columns make Excel formulas easier to read, audit, and fix.

The actual formula appears to be valid because when I click in the cells and out again, the formula is accepted. I saved the workbook after "fixing" the cells in this way and then reflected the ...