There are several ways to add forms in Microsoft Excel 2007, without the need to learn Visual Basic and type complex code. A basic form can be very useful if you need to enter a lot of data into Excel ...

If you’re a full-time spreadsheet jockey, or just a casual number-cruncher, you’ve come to know and either love or hate Excel’s interface. Well, your world just changed. Throw away almost everything ...

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Spreadsheets contain many tools for analyzing and manipulating data. The trouble is much of the data CPAs need to analyze resides in company databases or on the Internet. So, after finding the ...

When you get into a car to drive it for the first time, you adjust the seat, the mirrors, and maybe even the steering wheel’s position. You want to make sure that it’s a comfortable fit before you set ...

Switch from manual entries to automated generators that keep your spreadsheets clean, consistent, and error-free.

Susan Harkins shows you how to combine a function and conditional formatting to highlight weekends and holidays using Excel. Weekends and holidays are important to most of us. Besides enjoying the ...

Excel's PivotTable feature lets you organize and summarize data into a meaningful report format without changing the data set. Beyond reporting, PivotTables offer a quick and easy way to analyze ...

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