Let’s face it—Excel is one of those tools we all rely on, but it doesn’t always feel like it’s working with us. Maybe you’ve wrestled with disappearing leading zeros in your data, or spent way too ...

While you're playing around with the settings in Excel, consider switching to dark mode. If you spend all day staring at spreadsheets and find the white Excel canvas gives you a headache, switching to ...

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Have you ever followed a YouTube tutorial, carefully copied an Excel formula, and hit “Enter,” only to be met with an error or baffling results? It’s a ...

This feature works best when the columns you want to visualize are adjacent to each other, so you may need to rearrange your ...

How to Control Data Conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac Your email has been sent After years of struggling with Microsoft Excel's internal conversion feature, users can now disable Excel's ...

A scroll bar is an important element in Microsoft Excel. Excel sheets have two types of scrolling, vertical scrolling and horizontal scrolling. For vertical scrolling, you can use either your mouse ...

I'm working on an Excel spreadsheet and so far I made it so that when you open it in Excel, a username/password form comes up and you type your info in. Now I want to save it someplace so the next ...

Excel macros let you automate repetitive tasks for substantial time savings. Here’s how to put them to work for you. If you regularly work with Excel spreadsheets, you probably find yourself repeating ...

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 ...