Your summarizations, analyses, projections, reports and so on, are only as good as your data. It’s important that you use every resource available to protect the validity of the data, which means you ...

Microsoft Excel offers several tools you can use when you need to fill a column with the same text or numbers. Instead of completing each cell manually, you can quickly fill in the entire column using ...

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...

When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...

Imagine opening Excel and no longer needing to wrestle with complex formulas or spend hours manually analyzing data. What if you could simply type a question, like “What are the top-performing ...

Excel's data validation feature is more versatile than you might think. Learn how to use literal values, input values, list values, and even formulas to restrict input date values using data ...

When you start fresh in Microsoft Excel, you have two options to enter data – horizontal and vertical. But after entering vertical or columnar data, it can lead to errors to try to retype or drag cell ...

I began writing this series of blogs on Excel for Microcontroller Central. When it was shut down, Brad Albing (then editor of Planet Analog) agreed to copy the existing database across as a base for ...