I use custom views, the selection pane, clean UI toggles, and other tools to present my workbook professionally.

With Microsoft's introduction of Excel 2007, users had to abandon their previous habits and relearn Excel's menu structure. The familiar menu bar vanished in lieu of the "ribbon," which categorizes ...

One of the things I don’t like about Excel 2008 is that setting zoom levels is a bit more complex than it need be. If you use Excel’s View -> Zoom menu, this opens a new window, from which you then ...

Hide everything but the working area in an Excel worksheet Your email has been sent If you’ve ever opened a Microsoft Excel workbook to find no columns, rows and/or scrollbars, this is probably why: ...

Microsoft Windows may get all the press coverage, but when you want to get real work done, you turn your attention to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means ...

Microsoft’s updated spreadsheet tool isn’t getting a lot of new, whiz-bang features, but it is becoming more functional. That’s something both new and experienced users will enjoy—especially a new ...