For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

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Microsoft Excel is arguably the greatest spreadsheet application from Redmond, and there’s a good reason so many number crunchers use it for all of their number crunching needs. While using Microsoft ...

Drop-down lists in Microsoft Excel (and Word and Access) allow you to create a list of valid choices that you or others can select for a given field. This is especially useful for fields that require ...

For data nerds, Excel's drop-down lists are a lovely gift. They keep entries consistent across multiple rows — no misspelled words or names written without capitalization. Drop-down lists are ...

Learn how you can combine PivotChart and Slicer objects to create an easy-to-use and dynamic data summarization. Excel 2010 introduced Slicers, which you can use to filter PivotTable and PivotChart ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

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Microsoft Excel is great for numbers, certainly, it does this job really well. But, if you want to present your data in an attractive manner that allows you to visualize and analyze it easily, then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inserting a pivot table in a sheet in Excel 2013. Image: Screenshot by Susan Harkins/TechRepublic When is the last time you opened ...