How to Save as xls By Default in Excel 2010
The Excel 2010 default file save format in .xlsx, which is great when you are working with people that are using Excel 2010 or newer …
Learn how to adjust the settings and make changes to the spreadsheets that you are editing in Microsoft Excel 2010.
The Excel 2010 default file save format in .xlsx, which is great when you are working with people that are using Excel 2010 or newer …
The initial structure of a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2010 isn’t always perfect, and you sometimes need to put rows or columns in different locations. …
Microsoft Excel has several different viewing options that you can pick from when you are editing your spreadsheets. The correct view is the one that …
Copying and pasting data between Excel worksheets, or even different workbooks, is a great way to work efficiently. Occasionally, however, you may have an entire …
Text formatting comes in a variety of options. You’ve probably changed a font or font color before, which is an effective way to adjust the …
Many applications offer you a variety of different ways to change the appearance of your text. You’ve probably done things like bold text or underline …
There are a lot of tools in Microsoft Excel that serve very specific purposes. Many people won’t use a lot of these, but they can …
While much of the data that you add to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet might only take up one line, situations might exist where you want …
A spreadsheet with a lot of typos can be tough to work with, so reducing those types of errors is important. A dropdown list is …
Google usually provides data in a format that is compatible with other applications. You might have already found that you can download Docs files to …
Many tech tutorials that you find online for Microsoft Excel will tell you to navigate via the tabs at the top of the window. This …
Microsoft Excel has a couple of different potential layouts, though many people will only ever see one. A layout option that can be really confusing …
If you have previously frozen the top row of your spreadsheet so that it was easier to identify the data in your cells, then you …
Did you previously hide a worksheet because it contained important information that you didn’t want anyone to edit? Or perhaps you simply have too many …
While your primary concern when working with data in an Excel spreadsheet may be ensuring that the data is correct, you may also need to …
If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Excel then you have probably either forgotten to include a decimal point at some point, or …
Microsoft Excel is a great way to manage and edit large amounts of data. The row and column structure, combined with all of the different …
New Microsoft Excel files often contain a couple of blank tabs where you can add data. But if you only need one tab for your …
If you have finished creating or editing a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel and then gone to print it out, you might find that it hasn’t …
Adjusting the size of the cells in your spreadsheet is a pretty common occurrence, so you will eventually need to know how to make a …
Being able to edit a visible property for one of your cells or worksheets in Microsoft Excel typically involves switching between the different tabs on …
Microsoft Excel can be a difficult application to work with when you need to print a spreadsheet. One common problem involves getting your column to …
It’s possible that you have already noticed how often the mouse cursor can change as you hover over various parts of your spreadsheet. These cursor …
Taking advantage of the various convenience features in applications like Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel is a great way to make yourself more efficient. One …
Have you seen the terms “worksheet” and “workbook” a lot when reading about Microsoft Excel? They may seem like the same thing, or at least …
Learning how to move a row in Excel 2010 is a good way to quickly adjust the layout of the data in an Excel worksheet. …
Knowing exactly what you are working on is critical in Microsoft Excel, especially when you are adjusting a formula. One way to make this a …
While there is no direct way to add a watermark in Excel, there are a variety of alternatives, including header and footer tools, basic image …
Microsoft Office users often have experience with changing page margins in their documents, although that experience is likely with Microsoft Word rather than Microsoft Excel. …
If you haven’t used the formulas that Microsoft Excel provides, then you may not realize just how powerful the application can be. While its formatting …
Microsoft Excel offers a lot of different tools that you can use to apply custom formats to your cells. Some of these involve cell rules …
When you are putting a lot of data into a spreadsheet it’s really easy to forget something or to decide later that you want more …
Unless you have made some changes to the default setting for new workbooks in Microsoft Excel 2010, then you probably have white cell backgrounds by …
If you are fortunate enough to be working with an Excel spreadsheet where all of the data can be arranged in the default layout without …
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 …
Print settings are often an afterthought when working with data in Excel, but it can quickly turn into a headache when you print your spreadsheet …
One useful thing that you can do when working with Excel worksheets that are going to print on multiple sheets of paper is to ensure …
Adding text boxes in Microsoft Excel may seem odd, considering the layout of a spreadsheet and the way that the application is generally. But you …
Making a spreadsheet print properly can be difficult. As the file grows larger and the data uses more pages, readers might have trouble remembering what …
Excel has a combination of default settings that are meant to appeal to a large number of users. One of these settings is the view, …
Locking a worksheet in Excel can be a useful tool depending on how that worksheet is being shared. But someone viewing a locked spreadsheet might …
Excel printing problems come in a number of shapes and sizes. Whether you have a column that keeps trying to fit on its own page, …
It is helpful to add page numbers to your Excel 2010 worksheet if there are a lot of pages, or if you think it is …
Separating data into multiple worksheets within a workbook can be helpful in a lot of situations for which you would use Microsoft Excel 2010. But …
Data that is entered into the cells of a worksheet in Microsoft Excel 2010 can take many forms. Fortunately, Excel also offers multiple formatting choices …
It is a common thing in Excel 2010 to fill a group of cells with the same value, or to fill a group of cells …
Occasionally your Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet will show a series of black dotted lines that indicate the page breaks for the worksheet. These page breaks …
The print resolution that is specified by a document or image on your computer can have a big impact on both the quality of the …
When the cells in a Microsoft Excel worksheet are nearly filled with similar data, it can be difficult to read and understand the information contained …
Sometimes the amount of data in a spreadsheet can be so overwhelming that you have difficulty focusing on the important parts. This might have led …
File that you create in Microsoft Office programs, such as Microsoft Excel, include information that describes the file. This information is called metadata and can …
When you discover an error in Microsoft Excel, and that error is part of a formula, then the level of difficulty in resolving the problem …
Microsoft Excel 2010 will automatically include page breaks in your printed worksheet based on your paper size and margins. Unfortunately these page breaks do not …
A new, blank worksheet in Microsoft Excel consists of a series of cells that are split into rows and columns. You can visually distinguish these …
A worksheet that you print in Microsoft Excel 2010 will not include gridlines by default. However, many people adjust the settings of their worksheets to include …
Microsoft Excel windows can easily become cluttered, which can make it difficult to concentrate on the task you are trying to complete. One way to …
A common way to format a spreadsheet is to include a row of cells at the top or a column of cells at the left …
If you have ever run into issues with cell references in Excel formulas, then you may be looking for another way to use them. Or …
When you create a new text box in your Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet, it will have a border. Typically this border is dark grey and …
Highly customized spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel often go through several different versions before they are finalized and ready to be used or seen by their …
Unhiding the first column, or column “A” in an Excel spreadsheet presents a unique challenge. The typical method for unhiding a column will not apply …
If you have ever printed a lot of different similar-looking reports, then you know how helpful it can be to have those reports include identifying …
Microsoft Excel 2010 can do a lot of different things, leading many users to take advantage of the program whenever possible. But there are certain …
The Normal view in Microsoft Excel 2010 is simply a large, continuous grid of cells that are organized into rows and columns. This view makes …
When you are working on a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2010, the focus is usually on the data that you are adding, and the information …
The Microsoft Excel files that you have saved on your computer, and that you occasionally share with work colleagues or teachers, have file names with …
Are you working with a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2010 where you change a cell that is included in a formula, but the result of …
Splitting data up into individual worksheets in a Microsoft Excel file is an efficient way to organize information. It also prevents you from needing to …
When you are working with a lot of data in Microsoft Excel 2010, it is often beneficial to format certain types of data so that they …
When your Excel worksheet starts to fill up more than the visible cells on your screen, then you will need to a way to view …
Cell formatting, much like the formulas that you use within those cells, is an important element of how data in an Excel 2010 spreadsheet is …
Sometimes you no longer need the data that is entered into a cell. Whether the data is incorrect or it has been updated, there are …
If you have been using Microsoft Excel for at least a short amount of time, then you have probably encountered a situation where you needed …
Text boxes can be a useful tool in Microsoft Excel. One particular example is when your spreadsheet has a lot of data in it, but …
When you work with Excel 2010 often for work or school, you may eventually find that you are using the same data over and over …
Hiding rows, columns or worksheets in Microsoft Excel is an effective way to stop displaying information in your spreadsheet without deleting it. Whether this is …
You may discover that you need Excel to show results instead of formulas when you enter a formula that remains visible. An Excel spreadsheet can …
A cell in a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet can contain a variety of different types of information, and many of the possibilities will result in …
You may already know that you can change the height of a row in Microsoft Excel 2010, but it can be tedious when you need …
Some organizations like to add watermark images to their Excel files, either as a means to identify the source of the file or to add …
Microsoft Excel 2010 is capable of adding hyperlinks to text that you have entered into cells in your worksheet. These links can either be added …
Excel 2010 offers a variety of options that can be added to or removed from your printed worksheets. One of these options is the ability …
Cells in an Excel spreadsheet can contain many different kinds of data, and they can be formatted in many different ways. If you are working …
Spell check is a commonly used utility in Microsoft Word to locate and fix words that have been misspelled. But Word documents are not the …
To select all cells in an Excel 2010 spreadsheet, click the ‘Select All’ button located at the top-left corner of the spreadsheet or use the …
You likely already know how to insert a picture into your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, but what you might not realize is that there are some …
There are a lot of different formatting options in Microsoft Excel 2010, but there are some that you might encounter less frequently than others. One …
Excel spreadsheets that were created by or edited by other people can often have formatting that is not immediately visible when you first view the …
Microsoft Excel 2010 provides a vast assortment of tools and features that will help you to manage data in your spreadsheets. By default, the numbers …
Adding a picture to a spreadsheet in Excel 2010 is something that most Excel users will need to do at one time or another, but …
The footer section of an Excel 2010 spreadsheet is displayed on every page of a worksheet that prints out. This is great when you want …
If you are printing a spreadsheet that has a lot of formatting, such as an order form or invoice, then you may find that Excel …
You can round an Excel cell to one decimal place by right-clicking on it, choosing Format Cells, clicking the Number option, then setting Decimal Places …
Excel 2010 is a great tool when you have a lot of data that you want to compare. You can easily perform mathematical operations on …
Printed Excel spreadsheets always suffer from the fact that they can be difficult to follow. This is especially true of multi-page spreadsheets that are missing …
Receiving an Excel file from another person is often a frustrating proposition, especially if you need to print or edit the file. People have individual …
It’s very common for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to contain images, but they don’t behave the same way as data when they are first inserted into …
While Microsoft Excel is typically used as a way to store, sort and manipulate text and numbers, it is also a helpful way to store …
Excel can be used in a lot of different ways, but perhaps one of the most common uses is generating reports that include monetary values. …
Information in adjacent cells in a spreadsheet can become difficult to read if there isn’t a lot of white space between each cell. One way …