Use Excel’s built-in features to simplify data entry Your email has been sent Entering data into a worksheet can be time-consuming, and mistakes often find their way in -- but with the right tools, ...

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 ...

There are lots of times in Excel when you find yourself entering the same data over and over again. When you do, ask yourself if you can’t do the task more efficiently another way. For example, if you ...

Q. I enjoy learning about ways to increase my efficiency and save time in Microsoft Excel. Do you have any other tips to share? A. Flash Fill is one of my favorite features in Excel because it can do ...

Learn a quick and easy straightforward method for creating dependent drop-down lists in Excel using range functions, without relying on complex formulas. By organizing data with dynamic ranges, each ...

Glide turns an Excel spreadsheet into an inventory app; computed columns replace formulas, giving live stock-on-hand totals ...

Use dynamic arrays and tables for fast, scalable cascading drop-down lists in modern Excel.

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...