Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might imagine. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.

Form controls like checkboxes, radio buttons, and sliders add interactivity to your Excel forms. They allow users to make ...

Stop manually inserting rows and columns—use Excel's "secret" right-click-drag menu to move, swap, and convert data instantly ...

You're not alone if you've noticed that the Windows 11 Clipboard sometimes fails to capture what you've copied.

Diarmuid Early outperformed eleven rivals in intense thirty-minute Excel challenges The championship included unconventional tasks like creatively folding Excel modules Early received a cash prize and ...

"Who doesn't want to be the spreadsheet champion?" That is what the co-founders of the UK Microsoft Excel chapter said when explaining how the everyday computer program Microsoft Excel became a ...

Working in Microsoft Excel often means dealing with data of varying lengths. When text is too long for a cell, it either gets cut off or spills into the next one, while large numbers can appear as a ...

Here we will go through how Excel is structured, where you will find important and smart functions, and various peculiarities you should know. In short, we’ll show you how to make the program work for ...

Merging cells makes a dataset look presentable and properly formatted. However, often you won't be able to merge cells because the workbook is protected or it is shared. You can first try to remove ...

We’ll take you through a step-by-step guide on how to open an XML file in Excel, Word, Chrome, and Edge. Let’s get started. It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to ...

Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...