Microsoft Excel has been the industry standard spreadsheet software for decades, since outdoing the once venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. And Excel's dominance has yet ...

Q. I would like my employees to be more efficient with Excel. They are all at different Excel proficiency levels. Are there some quick tips I could share with them? A. There are so many tips that can ...

For many small business owners, Microsoft Excel is not only a powerful tool for internal tracking and bookkeeping, but it can also be used to prepare documents for distribution to partners or ...

If you don't have a keen eye and a perfect memory, you probably can't spot all the differences between two data columns in a large worksheet. Discovering these differences can be important if values ...

Excel remains an essential tool for data management, analysis, and visualization. In 2025, its evolving features and refined techniques make it more powerful than ever. But have you ever found ...

As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

To sum a Column in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, you can use the AutoSum, the Status Bar, and even the Sum function to calculate values in one or more columns as explained below. One of the quickest ...

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...

Simpler and faster is always better in Excel. We start with some of my favorite shortcuts, then move on to using Excel for everyday situations such as finding random numbers for passwords, or random ...

At times, you might want to copy column width from the source to another spreadsheet in Excel on Windows 11/10 computers. If so, you can follow this step-by-step guide to know which option to use or ...