Many Excel tools are optional extras, but these six are essentials I rely on in every workbook.

Susan Harkins shows you how to format and unlock input cells in Excel at the same time by assigning a modified style. It’s common to highlight input cells so users know which values to change, and ...

Excel's notes feature seems helpful until your worksheet is filled with red triangles and overlapping text boxes. Instead, use a little-known tool in the Data Validation menu to create clean pop-up ...

Designing visually appealing and functional Excel forms and interfaces more accessible than you might think. By integrating Excel’s robust features with PowerPoint’s “Merge Shapes” tool and the power ...

Microsoft Excel users, follow these two easy methods to reduce data entry time and errors when customized features aren’t available. Your summarizations, analyses, projections, reports and so on, are ...

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...

Launch Microsoft Excel. Enter data or use existing data. Enter a formula into the cell Press Enter. See result. Launch Microsoft Excel. Enter data into the spreadsheet. We have input a result heading ...