Staring at gray grids all day? Same here—until I learned a one-step visual hack for Excel. It’s fast, doesn’t need fancy add-ons, and instantly makes data clearer and more fun to work with. There's a ...

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

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

How to change an Excel slicer’s visual impact with a few simple steps Your email has been sent A couple of easy changes can greatly enhance the visual impact of a slicer. This walk-through shows you ...

When you think about serial communications, Microsoft Excel isn’t typically the first program that springs to mind. But this spreadsheet has a rather powerful scripting language hidden away inside it, ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel’s Data Analysis Toolpak is an invaluable add-in for those who require complex statistical or engineering analyses. This powerful feature allows users to execute a variety of data ...

Enhancements in the .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 make Office automation solutions easier than ever to write and deploy. Here's an Excel automation scenario that reflects solutions that I've ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...