Select all the relevant cells, and in the Data tab, click the main part of the split "Data Validation" button. Then, click ...

Have you ever been overwhelmed by messy spreadsheets or struggled to collect data in an organized way? Imagine a scenario where instead of juggling multiple tabs and rows, you could guide users ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

How to Control Data Conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac Your email has been sent After years of struggling with Microsoft Excel's internal conversion feature, users can now disable Excel's ...

Do you have an Excel spreadsheet with huge data and scratching your head about how to find discrepancies? A discrepancy in Excel is quite common irrespective of whether you are an expert or an amateur ...

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...

Visual chaos: The alternative to the slow, stop-start process is clicking "Show All Notes" or "Show Comments" in the Review ...

I began writing this series of blogs on Excel for Microcontroller Central. When it was shut down, Brad Albing (then editor of Planet Analog) agreed to copy the existing database across as a base for ...

SQLite, a lightweight database suitable for managing small data systems, might power some of your business' applications and websites. If it does, you might wish to share SQLite's data with your Excel ...