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How-to guides and tutorials about topics related to the Microsoft Excel 2013 application and ways that you can edit spreadsheets.

Click Insert, then PivotTable

How to Create a Pivot Table in Excel 2013

August 3, 2023March 22, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel is full of useful tools that can help you get the information that you need from your source data. But if you have …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Pivot Tables
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How to Convert MM to Inches in Excel 2013

July 9, 2023March 18, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Converting units of measurement is a necessary evil for a lot of people in a wide variety of fields. Fortunately if you want to convert …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Find an Average in Excel 2013

June 21, 2023March 15, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel includes a number of different ways that you can calculate totals or values based on your cell data. But if you need to …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
click the symbol menu, then click none

How to Stop Showing a Dollar Sign in Excel 2013

June 27, 2023March 9, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Formatting data properly in Excel can solve a lot of problems that you might have with your formulas, or with readers understanding your data. But …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to delete a comment in excel 2013

How to Delete a Comment in Excel 2013

July 28, 2023March 8, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

We have previously written about how to add a comment to a cell in Excel 2013, but what if you need to delete a comment …

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Categories Programs Tags Deleting, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Delete a Header in Excel 2013

July 5, 2023March 2, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Information in the header of a spreadsheet can include things like page numbers, you name, or the name of a report. But if that information …

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Categories Programs Tags Header, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
split a full name into two cells in excel 2013

How to Split Full Names Into Two Cells in Excel 2013

July 5, 2023March 1, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel has a lot of helpful features for managing data, and many of them can save you a lot of manual work. For example, you …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to print worksheets on their own page in excel 2013

How to Print Each Worksheet of an Excel 2013 Workbook on One Page

July 24, 2023December 11, 2020 by Matthew Burleigh

When you have an Excel workbook with a lot of individual worksheets, you might need to print all of those sheets at once, and you …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
how to make a table in excel 2013

How to Make a Table in Excel 2013

August 1, 2023November 20, 2020 by Matthew Burleigh

While the layout of a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel is reminiscent of a table by default, Excel actually has a tool to make tables from …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Tables
how to name columns in excel

How Do You Name Columns in Excel 2013?

July 10, 2023September 17, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

Adding a row of headings to the top of your spreadsheet is an effective way to describe the data in your cells. This is especially …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Titles
how to insert arrow in excel 2013

How to Insert an Arrow in Excel 2013

June 3, 2023September 6, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

If you want to subtract in Excel, there’s a formula that can help you do it. The same goes for other common mathematical operations, as …

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Categories Programs Tags Arrows, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to calculate age in excel 2013

How to Calculate Age from a Birthdate in Excel 2013

July 24, 2023August 21, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel has a lot of tools that can help you calculate values based on data that you’ve entered. You’ve probably had to add up values …

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how to remove comma formatting from numbers in excel 2013

How to Display Numbers Without a Comma in Excel 2013

June 15, 2023March 6, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

Are some of the numbers in your spreadsheet currently formatted to display commas as a 1000 separator? This is an option in Excel, and it …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
how give worksheet different name excel 2013

Can I Name a Worksheet Something Other Than Sheet1, Sheet2, etc in Excel 2013

June 13, 2023November 2, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel files are often referred to a spreadsheets, but they are actually files called workbooks, and they can contain multiple spreadsheets within them. These spreadsheets …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
how to add row numbering in excel 2013

How to Add Row Numbering in Excel 2013

July 18, 2023July 26, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Numbering your rows in Excel is helpful when you need to reference a particular cell either to another person or as part of a formula. …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
how to change page order in excel 2013

How to Change the Page Order in Excel 2013

July 26, 2023July 17, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

It’s very common for an Excel spreadsheet to be too large to fit on one page. Additional cells are then pushed to another page, and …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
how to hide multiple worksheets in excel 2013

How to Hide Multiple Worksheets in Excel 2013

July 24, 2023July 6, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

The ability to hide worksheets in an Excel workbook can be very helpful when you need to share a spreadsheet with someone else, but there …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Workbooks
how to change order of quick access toolbar in excel 2013

How to Change the Order of Items in the Excel 2013 Quick Access Toolbar

August 22, 2023June 8, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

The Quick Access Toolbar in Excel 2013 gives you the ability to quickly perform some common commands that would otherwise require you to navigate through …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Ribbon
how to delete all comments in excel 2013

How to Delete All Comments from a Worksheet in Excel 2013

June 5, 2023June 8, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

We have previously written about how to delete a comment in Excel 2013 when you have a specific comment in a spreadsheet that you no …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
how to concatenate text in excel 2013

How to Concatenate Text in Excel 2013

May 30, 2023June 6, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Retyping data is always a hassle in spreadsheets. It’s also prone to errors, so you might be looking for a better way to combine data …

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Categories Programs Tags Concatenate, Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to refresh a pivot table in excel 2013

How to Refresh a Pivot Table in Excel 2013

June 17, 2023May 22, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Entering all of the data into your spreadsheet and using it to create a pivot table in Excel is a great way to manage your …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Pivot Tables
why are column labels numbers instead of letters in excel 2013

Why Are My Column Labels Numbers Instead of Letters in Excel 2013?

June 22, 2023May 9, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

If your Microsoft Excel application has column numbers instead of letters, then you may be wondering not only how that happened, but how you can …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
how to delete a text box in excel 2013

How to Delete a Text Box in Excel 2013

June 29, 2023April 13, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

If you have a text box in an Excel spreadsheet that you need to delete, then you might be wondering how that is possible. There …

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Categories Programs Tags Deleting, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to select the entire spreadsheet in excel 2013

How to Select Entire Spreadsheet in Excel 2013 (An Easy 2 Step Guide)

July 15, 2023April 10, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Occasionally you might need to make a change that affects all of the cells in a spreadsheet. But if you’ve ever tried to manually select …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Selections
how to enlarge a cell horizontally in excel 2013

How to Expand Cells Horizontally in Excel 2013

July 1, 2023March 7, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

While the standard Excel cell width can hold several characters’ worth of data before things start to become hidden, you will probably need to know …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to edit directly in the cell in excel 2013

Why Can’t I Double Click a Cell to Edit It in Excel 2013?

June 29, 2023February 13, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

You can edit cells in Excel 2013 by selecting a cell and clicking inside the formula bar at the top of the window, or you …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Workbooks
how to turn off screentips in excel 2013

How to Turn Off Screen Tips in Excel 2013

July 3, 2023January 27, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 can provide you with additional information about some of the buttons and features in the program when you hover over them. These pop-up …

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Categories Programs Tags Display, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to add leading zeroes in excel 2013

How to Add Leading Zeroes to Numbers in Excel 2013

June 20, 2023January 26, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

If you are working with numbers that might include zeroes at the start of those numbers, then you might be running into a problem. Excel …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to change the view setting for all excel worksheets at once

How to Return All Worksheets in an Excel Workbook Back to Normal View

June 18, 2023January 16, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 has a few different view options that you can select from to help you format your spreadsheet properly. The view setting is an …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Views
how to find the number of workdays between two dates in excel

How to Calculate the Number of Workdays Between Two Dates in Excel 2013

July 12, 2023January 12, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

One way that you can use Excel 2013 is to keep track of ongoing projects, or important dates that occur either in your personal life …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to change or edit an existing header in excel 2013

How to Change or Edit an Existing Header in Excel 2013

June 28, 2023December 27, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

The header section of an Excel spreadsheet is a great place to add a page number, or include important information that can help to identify …

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Categories Programs Tags Header, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to stop showing tracking numbers as scientific notation in excel 2013

How to Change Tracking Numbers from Scientific Notation in Excel 2013

July 28, 2023December 9, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

If you are working with a lot of shipping data in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, then you will likely need to store information about tracking …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Selections
how to stop excel from printing lines when you have turned off gridlines

Why Is Excel Still Printing Lines When I Have Already Turned Off Gridlines?

June 30, 2023December 5, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel spreadsheets can be difficult to read when you print them without any kind of lines to separate data in cells. On paper this can …

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Categories Programs Tags Lines, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to always show two decimal places in excel, even if the second number is a zero

How to Stop Excel from Removing the Second Decimal Place If It’s a Zero

June 25, 2023December 2, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 has a wide range of formatting choices that can be applied to cells in a worksheet. But some of the default formatting choices …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
resize a picture to exact dimensions in excel 2013

How to Resize a Picture in Excel 2013

June 2, 2023November 2, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Many of the pictures that you have on your computer, whether they are screenshots or pictures from a digital camera, are probably rather large. This …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Pictures
how to reset a picture to its original size in excel 2013

How to Reset a Picture to Its Original Size in Excel 2013

July 10, 2023November 1, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

A picture that you insert into a spreadsheet in Excel 2013 is unlikely to be the right size or in the right format that you …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Pictures
view default file types for excel 2013

How to See Which Files Excel 2013 Will Open By Default

June 23, 2023September 16, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel is the common choice when you need to select a program to open .xls or .xlsx files. In fact, it probably obtained those …

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Categories Programs Tags Defaults, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
show two decimal places for all cells in excel 2013

How to Show Two Decimal Places in Excel 2013

July 31, 2023August 31, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

A spreadsheet can look a little messy and be difficult to read when it has inconsistent formatting. But often, this inconsistency is simply due to …

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Categories Programs Tags Menus, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to make the arrow keys start working again in excel 2013

Why Aren’t My Arrow Keys Working in Excel 2013?

June 3, 2023August 30, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Rather than using your mouse to click between the different cells of your spreadsheet in Excel 2013, you may have found that the arrow keys …

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Categories Programs Tags Arrows, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Turn Off Background Error Checking in Excel 2013

July 21, 2023August 3, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 is constantly scanning for errors in your workbook. This occurs in the background and is the reason that you often see a small …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Utilities
how to hide gridlines on screen and when printing in excel 2013

How to Hide Gridlines in Excel 2013

June 29, 2023August 2, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Gridlines in Excel 2013 offer an effective way to visually separate your data into distinct cells. These gridlines can appear on the screen when you …

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Categories Programs Tags Lines, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
use inches for cell sizes in excel 2013

How to Set Excel Column Width in Inches

July 15, 2023July 26, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

If you’ve ever tried to adjust the width of your columns for printing then you have probably found it to be a little frustrating. This …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
multiplying cell values and numbers in Excel 2013

How to Multiply in Excel 2013

July 27, 2023July 21, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

If you are trying to figure out how to multiply in Excel 2013, then you might be struggling to find the formula or option to …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
disable autorecover for an individual excel 2013 workbook

How to Disable AutoRecover for a Specific Workbook in Excel 2013

July 27, 2023July 12, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

The AutoRecover feature in Microsoft Excel 2013 can help to save your work in the event that your computer shuts down unexpectedly before you have …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Utilities
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What is the Difference Between “Clear Hyperlinks” and Remove Hyperlinks in Excel 2013?

June 2, 2023June 30, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 has a habit of turning text that looks like a Web page address or file location into a link. This is helpful if …

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Categories Programs Tags Hyperlinks, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
why an excel sum is not updating

Why Isn’t My Sum Updating in Excel 2013 Anymore?

July 31, 2023June 22, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

A sum that is not updating automatically in Excel 2013 can be frustrating and, depending upon the importance of the information that it affects, potentially …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to get crossed out text in excel 2013

How to Cross Out in Excel 2013

July 14, 2023June 21, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel has a lot of formatting options that let you do things like convert text to numbers in Excel. But you may be looking …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Strikethrough
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How to Alphabetize in Excel 2013

June 13, 2023June 17, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 provides numerous utilities that allow you to organize, store, and interact with your data. Perhaps one of the most helpful and most commonly …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Print an Excel Spreadsheet on A4 Paper

September 20, 2023June 14, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

In a perfect world, you wouldn’t need to make any changes to your Excel files before you print them. But whether you need to know …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
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How to Put a Bulleted or Numbered List in Excel Cell

July 3, 2023June 10, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel’s default layout of cells in rows and columns is a great place to start when you’re organizing data. But you might be wondering …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Symbols
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