Apples iWork 08 boasts improvements to the software suites word processing and presentation applications, but—more importantly—it fills the suites spreadsheet hole with Numbers. eWEEK Labs ran Numbers ...

Drop-down lists in Microsoft Excel (and Word and Access) allow you to create a list of valid choices that you or others can select for a given field. This is especially useful for fields that require ...

Editorial Note: Forbes Advisor may earn a commission on sales made from partner links on this page, but that doesn't affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is one ...

Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Rob Griffiths—our go-to expert on spreadsheets—to use Excel 2008 and Numbers ‘08 to create the same project, ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

Hiding lines, or rows, in Microsoft Office Excel 2010 is very simple: Right-click the lines and select "Hide." However, expanding the hidden lines in the Excel spreadsheet is not as simple. To get the ...

If you use simple copy and paste methods to duplicate an Excel drop-down list, you may discover a problem; when you copy a cell that has a drop-down list and press "Ctrl-V" to paste it into a new cell ...