The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. Once you select the portion of your spreadsheet that contains the target data, then define it as a ...

Quit the data-search struggle by organizing your raw data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Rather than manually scrolling through a list of disorganized records, use Excel's built-in tools to find ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

Building around relationships instead of formulas made my Excel dashboard faster to create, easier to update, and more interactive.

The open source community has created many open source Java projects, which range from charting software to game frameworks to word processors. In this post, I introduce an open source library project ...

Tables, Watch Window, Split View, and grouping often solve common spreadsheet frustrations more effectively than Freeze Panes.

Not only does Excel keep information organized in spreadsheets, it can also save you from manually typing data for each cell separately. Formulas compute information directly in Excel and ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...