Taking advantage of the ability to have multiple sheet tabs in Microsoft Excel is a great way to keep similar types of data organized. For example, if you have a report that you create monthly then you might have a separate worksheet tab for each month. This makes sharing information much simpler, as you only … Read more
Some of the formatting options and tools in Microsoft Word can be in the way, so some users may hide them. Or, perhaps, there is something that could be shown on the screen but Microsoft has chosen to hide it by default because the majority of users won’t use it. But it’s possible that you … Read more
While much of the data that you add to a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel will probably go inside the cells, you may find that you need to add information to a text box as well. Whether this is information that is supplementary to your data, or you are highlighting something found in a row or … Read more
Getting the size of your cells right is something that can be surprisingly tricky, depending on your needs. While you can approximate the column width or row height by dragging the borders or even autofit column widths by double-clicking one of those borders, you may want to select column widths to meet some specific requirements. … Read more
If you spend a lot of time creating, editing, and formatting data in Microsoft Excel, then you might choose to create a chart that presents that data in a format that is easier to understand. But you might need to show that chart in another file format, or online, leaving you looking for a way … Read more
An Excel spreadsheet, like other documents that you might create in Microsoft Office programs such as Word or Powerpoint, will print as much information on one page as it can. One way around this is to use page breaks to force content onto a new page. But you might need to know how to remove … Read more
Placing your data into cells in Excel provides you with ways that you can compare and interact with your data. Typically this will involve various sorting options and formulas, but you can also create charts and graphs, if necessary. You can even learn how to make a pie chart in Excel 2013 if you have … Read more
When you are first creating a set of data in Microsoft Excel 2010, there is probably a lot of data entry that is occurring. While this is, by its’ very nature, a tedious activity, it can be made even more so if you are just typing slightly different values on each row. For example, “Product … Read more
While borders are often more of a concern in other Microsoft Office products like Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Powerpoint, you can have borders in a Word document as well. Whether those borders surround the entire document, part of the document, or a picture, then you might be wondering how to remove a border in Word … Read more
When you create a new spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel you probably see a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that create small rectangular cells. These lines are called gridlines and are a helpful formatting option to have both when working on your computer and viewing a printed spreadsheet. The steps in this article are going … Read more