Have you ever found yourself in a chaotic Excel workbook, where multiple people are editing the same cells, accidentally overwriting each other’s work, or making unintended changes? It’s frustrating, ...

Excel drop-down lists, like those found on Web pages, help you view large amounts of data in a small area. They are also useful for limiting the choices an Excel spreadsheet user can make when editing ...

Quit the data-search struggle by organizing your raw data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Rather than manually scrolling through a list of disorganized records, use Excel's built-in tools to find ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

A few months back, Dave showed you how to use Excel pivot tables to better visualize your spreadsheet data. (If you missed the post, be sure to check it out -- it has video!) Of course, if you've ...

Increasingly, reporters are turning to Microsoft Excel — or similar spreadsheet programs like Apple’s Numbers — to advance their reporting. They’re using spreadsheets to keep track of city budgets, ...

If you are looking to build data entry forms for Microsoft Excel but don’t have any Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills. You will be pleased to know that there is an easy workaround that allows ...