Whole-column references in Excel are silent performance killers, often forcing the program to manage a range of over a ...

Here's a quick method, and the equivalent keyboard shortcut, for selecting an entire data range. Working with a complete data set is a common task in Excel. You might want to move the data, apply a ...

The Data Validation feature in Excel 2013 offers a List option to confine selections in a cell to a preconfigured series of values. This selection can further influence the values in another list by ...

Excel’s dynamic, dependent drop-down lists are a fantastic solution for data management. These lists automatically adapt to your data, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. Dynamic array formulas are the ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...

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 ...

There are two ways to fix this cause of the #SPILL! error. First, select the entire spill range (or at least the cell or ...

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp. Have you noticed that people groan when you pop open a spreadsheet to ...

This guide describes how to grey out unused cells in Excel in Windows 11/10, apply a solid fill color, use Conditional Formatting, or hide unused rows/columns.