Microsoft Excel

How to Show the Ribbon in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook

Has your Excel, Word, or Outlook app’s ribbon suddenly disappeared? It’s easy to hide it accidentally, and sometimes the tabs disappear too. In either case, you can bring it back in your Office app on your Windows or Mac mach…

Mahesh Makvana May 10th

How to Set Excel as the Default App for Spreadsheets on Mac

Microsoft Excel works great on a Mac, but sometimes spreadsheets open in other apps like Apple Numbers instead. You can fix this by telling your Mac which app to use by default and converting incompatible files….

Tim Brookes Apr 19th

Microsoft Excel Now Has a ChatGPT Function

Microsoft announced a Copilot AI feature that is coming to Excel sometime in the future, along with Word, Excel, and other apps. In the meantime, there’s a new function that can plug your spreadsheet data directly into ChatGP…

Corbin Davenport Apr 12th

How to Combine First and Last Names in Microsoft Excel

Do you want to bring the first and last names that are in separate cells into a single cell? Combining text is easy in Excel, and we’ll show you five different ways to combine names.

Mahesh Makvana Feb 16th

How to Add Text to a Cell With a Formula in Excel

Do you want to add some text to the beginning, middle, or end of the existing text in your cells? Microsoft Excel has you covered. You can use a formula or function to append text to your cells, including finding a specific c…

Mahesh Makvana Feb 5th

How to Check If a Cell Is Blank With ISBLANK in Excel

Microsoft Excel’s ISBLANK function enables you to check whether a cell is blank or not. You can use this function in conjunction with the IF function to determine what happens to your cells when they’re blank or non-blank. He…

Mahesh Makvana Jan 30th

How to Remove Blank Rows in Excel

Want to remove all the blank rows from your dataset? If so, Microsoft Excel offers both automatic and manual methods to let you clear the blank rows and shift your data up. Here’s how to use those ways….

Mahesh Makvana Jan 28th

3 Ways to Insert Hyperlinks in Microsoft Excel

For quick access to a cell, document, or webpage, you can insert hyperlinks in your Excel spreadsheet. Just paste in a hyperlink, give it a readable label, and click to follow the link. Here are a few ways to insert hyperlink…

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 24th

Save Time in Outlook With These 6 Custom Quick Step Examples

Using Quick Steps in Microsoft Outlook, you can click a button to run one or more automated actions on an email you select. While Outlook gives you some handy premade Quick Steps, you may want to create your own….

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 23rd

11 Little-Known Excel Functions That Are Very Useful

Microsoft Excel offers hundreds of functions. So, there’s bound to be at least a handful you don’t know exist. These unique functions have specific purposes that you’ll be thrilled to learn about and use….

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 18th

6 Uses for the HYPERLINK Function in Microsoft Excel

Excel offers its own built-in linking feature in the toolbar. But the HYPERLINK function lets you do more, like a link to a workbook on your company intranet, shared server, another drive, or even a bookmark in a Word documen…

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 16th

Excel for Beginners: The 6 Most Important Tasks to Know

If you’ve never spent time using Microsoft Excel, it can feel a bit overwhelming at first. We’ll teach you the basic tasks you need to know to use this popular spreadsheet application.

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 11th

How to Use the FILTER Function in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel offers a built-in filter feature along with the option to use an advanced filter. But if you want to filter by multiple criteria and even sort the results, check out the FILTER function in Excel….

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 10th

Don’t Have a Wearable? Track Your Health in Excel

Don’t have a health tracker that you can strap on like a Fitbit or even an Apple Watch? You can still effectively log fitness, nutrition, diet, blood sugar, and other health details using an app you probably have on your comp…

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 7th

Microsoft Excel’s Automation Tab Is Now on Mac and Windows

Amid all the CES news, Microsoft is also pushing some helpful updates for its Microsoft 365 suite of programs. Excel’s Automate tab is now finally available on the desktop versions of the beloved spreadsheet app….

Arol Wright Jan 5th

How to Add or Remove a Secondary Axis in an Excel Chart

If you have a chart where you’re plotting different types of data or the values vary, consider adding a second axis for easier viewing. We’ll show you how to painlessly create a two-axis chart in Excel….

Sandy Writtenhouse Dec 1st, 2022

7 Ways to Sort Data in Microsoft Excel

It’s easy to sort data in Excel alphabetically or numerically. But maybe you want to sort based on color, formatting, or a list like months of the year. We’ll show you different ways to sort data in Excel….

Sandy Writtenhouse Nov 30th, 2022

How to Use an Advanced Filter in Microsoft Excel

While Microsoft Excel offers a built-in feature for filtering data, you may have a large number of items in your sheet or need a more complex filter. Here, we’ll explain how to create an advanced filter in Excel….

Sandy Writtenhouse Nov 29th, 2022

How to Use a Data Table in a Microsoft Excel Chart

When you make a graph in Excel, you may want to include the source data with it. By adding a data table, which takes just a few steps, you can provide extra details or further explain your visual.

Sandy Writtenhouse Nov 28th, 2022

How to Find the Smallest or Largest Number in Microsoft Excel

When you have a spreadsheet packed with data, finding the number you need can be tedious. Yet, whether you’re looking for the lowest product sales amount or the highest test score, Excel’s SMALL and LARGE functions can help…

Sandy Writtenhouse Nov 22nd, 2022

How to Add and Customize Data Labels in Microsoft Excel Charts

When you create an Excel chart that contains a ton of data, it can be difficult to decipher it all at a glance. One helpful way to point out information is using data labels for a series of data points. We’ll show you how to …

Sandy Writtenhouse Nov 20th, 2022

How to Unhide All Rows in Excel

Unhiding all the rows in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is as easy as pressing a keyboard shortcut or using a button on the ribbon. We’ll show you how.

Mahesh Makvana Nov 17th, 2022

How to Optimize Workbook Performance in Excel for the Web

When you use Excel on the web, do you notice that your workbook takes a long time to load? Microsoft seeks to help you solve this problem with Check Performance. Here’s how it works.

Sandy Writtenhouse Nov 17th, 2022

How to Multiply Columns in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is full of useful features, including those for performing calculations. If there comes a time when you need to multiply two columns in Excel, there are various methods for doing so. We’ll show you how to mult…

Sandy Writtenhouse Nov 15th, 2022

How to Use the IS Functions in Microsoft Excel

When you want to test your data and receive a simple True or False result, the IS functions in Excel are just what you need. You can check for blank cells, errors, text, numbers, references, and more quickly and easily….

Sandy Writtenhouse Nov 14th, 2022

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