Not a formula. A walkthrough.

Formulas are half the work in a spreadsheet. The other half is the interface itself: menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, settings buried three submenus deep. Pivot tables, conditional formatting, data validation, named ranges, protecting sheets, sharing permissions. None of that is a formula. All of it is the reason people Google “how to [x] in excel” 500 million times a year.

This tool answers those questions with an actual walkthrough. Not a formula. Not a 12-minute YouTube video where the first 3 minutes are an intro. Just the steps, in order, for the specific thing you asked about.

What it covers

Excel (desktop and 365), Google Sheets, and Salesforce. Within each, the full interface: menus, shortcuts, settings, data tools, formatting, sharing, automation UI.

Why the explanation is better than a Google result

Most search results for “how do I do X in Excel” are written by content farms, then SEO-optimized into unreadable mush. They start with three paragraphs explaining what Excel is. They pad every step with “Now, click Insert. The Insert tab is a tab that lets you insert things.” They cover four methods when you only need one.

We give you one method, the one most people use, written the way a coworker would explain it. If there are better approaches for specific situations, we mention them at the end.

When to use this vs. the formula generator

Formula generator: “give me a formula that calculates X.” How-To: “walk me through doing X.” A lot of the time you actually want both. Ask the how-to first to understand the setup, then ask the formula generator for the specific calculation.

Salesforce bias

Salesforce has five UIs layered on top of each other by now: Classic, Lightning, Setup, Object Manager, and whatever you call the App Builder flow. The tool defaults to Lightning because that's what 95% of orgs use in 2026. If you're on Classic, say so in the prompt.