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 ...

InDesign is intended for use as a graphics program, but graphics often overlap with other segments of business, and incorporating a spreadsheet into a design is not uncommon. Luckily, importing a ...

I've been gradually building up my Excel shortcut knowledge over time, and it has genuinely helped me work with spreadsheets more efficiently. Once you start incorporating shortcuts into your daily ...

An Excel Spreadsheet is a file that contains columns and rows. All the rows are numbered (row 1, row 2, row 3, etc) and the columns are listed alphabetically (column A, column B, etc.) Each cell is ...

If you've ever tried building a product catalog in Excel, you know the headache — images float over cells, they don't move ...

This morning, Microsoft opened the tech preview of its long-anticipated Office Web Apps. Here’s a first look at what the online version of Excel has in store. From the online SkyDrive folders, you can ...

Q. What does the Smart Lookup feature in Excel do? A. You can quickly look up text from your Excel spreadsheets from several online sources. For example, if there was a word or account name that you ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, trying to extract the exact data you need from a massive, complex spreadsheet? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? You might spend hours tweaking formulas, ...

Some Excel workbooks include macros that run automatically when opened. If you want to quickly look at a spreadsheet without waiting for the macro to run, you can block the automatic code for a single ...

Econometrics is important, but a great deal of the work of economists is simply looking at data, graphing data, charting data, calculating ratios and percent changes, and performing other data ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a massive Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to pull the right information from multiple columns without losing your mind? If so, you’re not alone. Whether you’re ...