Still far and away the most powerful, and now the easiest-to-use, worksheet app. Except for a few scientific and financial-analysis tasks, it's the first and only choice for manipulating numeric data.

I once made money moonlighting as a VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 instructor before Steve Ballmer ever typed “=sum(Profits)” in an Excel 1.0 spreadsheet cell. And a friend and former colleague from my ...

Q: When I open two Excel files in two instances of Excel and display them on two monitors, I find that I cannot then copy formulas back and forth between the files—only the formula’s calculated value ...

The Data Validation feature in Excel 2013 offers a List option to confine selections in a cell to a preconfigured series of values. This selection can further influence the values in another list by ...

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Microsoft Excel is a crucial tool for anyone operating in modern business. But there are risks. For one thing, it can be intimidating for beginners. Furthermore, Excel errors can have devastating ...

This Excel 2013 Cheat Sheet from CustomGuide covers program fundamentals, as well as essential keyboard shortcuts for navigation, editing and formatting that can make your work go even faster. Excel ...

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