The Excel ribbon often forces you through multiple menus just to highlight important data. Hidden inside the Format Cells dialog is a syntax system that replaces several common formatting tasks like ...

Spread the loveEver found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel spreadsheet, a sea of numbers and text, struggling to make ...

If you find yourself struggling trying to efficiently format large numbers in Excel spreadsheets. Manually adjusting figures to display in thousands or millions, you will be pleased to know that there ...

Sometimes when I’m working with an Excel worksheet and I want a cell to look a certain way, I run into what appears to be a limitation in the program. It might be trying to enter product numbers with ...

When you think VBA code is your only hope, try combing built-it conditional formatting tools. You might just find an easier solution than writing code. Editor’s Note: This article was originally ...

When you use Microsoft Excel to analyze your company's data, you want to spot trends, successes and problems at a glance. Before you dive into an in-depth examination of specific sales results, ...

Formatting business cards in Excel is not only possible, it's cost-effective, since it saves you from hiring a professional designer. Excel's tools enable you to apply several types of formatting to ...

This month, Susan Harkins presents some easy solutions for a few problems that only seem big. It’s been a month of easy answers for the most part. The problems seem big, but as usual, there’s an easy ...