I once made money moonlighting as a VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 instructor before Steve Ballmer ever typed “=sum(Profits)” in an Excel 1.0 spreadsheet cell. And a friend and former colleague from my ...

Still far and away the most powerful, and now the easiest-to-use, worksheet app. Except for a few scientific and financial-analysis tasks, it's the first and only choice for manipulating numeric data.

Microsoft today outlined some finer points for organizations wanting to test business intelligence (BI) capabilities enabled by the latest Excel 2013 and SharePoint 2013 previews. Last week, Microsoft ...

Q: When I open two Excel files in two instances of Excel and display them on two monitors, I find that I cannot then copy formulas back and forth between the files—only the formula’s calculated value ...

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There’s no dictionary, geographic mapping or flow chart tool baked into the core Microsoft Office 2013 software, but you can still get all these functions for free or a small fee. Developers from ...

Microsoft Excel is a crucial tool for anyone operating in modern business. But there are risks. For one thing, it can be intimidating for beginners. Furthermore, Excel errors can have devastating ...

Update: There’s a more recent version of this article published here – Visualising geographic data in Excel 2016. If a picture says a 1,000 words, then a beautiful interactive map overlaid with ...

It's available on practically every PC, and the capacity of Excel for data manipulation make it a strong business intelligence (BI) tool. On top of this, Microsoft's spreadsheet application is easy to ...

When you upload the modified page to your website, anyone who views it will find an "Excel Interactive View" button above the table. When a visitor clicks on the button, an active view of the table ...