The commenting system in Microsoft Office products like Excel is ideal when you are collaborating on a document with a team and need to question something, or suggest an edit. The alternative might be to include your comment inside a cell, or in a nearby cell, which can be problematic if that comment is not […]

You will eventually need to know how to enlarge a cell horizontally in Excel when you enter data into a cell and find that all of the data is not visible. Excel 2013 has a default cell width, and it is possible to enter enough data into that cell so that it can’t all be […]

Saving an Excel spreadsheet as a PDF is a solution that I often use when I have data that I want to share with other people, but I want to avoid giving them the option to easily edit that data. Unfortunately the PDF version of an Excel worksheet suffers from the same issues that a […]

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 can double-click a cell and edit the data directly in the cell. But you might find that double-clicking a cell to edit the data is no longer working, and that […]

You may have already found the option to wrap text in Excel 2013, but you might have noticed that it will only apply to the cell that is currently selected. This is not something that can only be done to one cell at a time, however. You can wrap text for multiple cells at once […]

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 descriptions are called ScreenTips, and they can either be simple, where they only display the name of the object, or they can be enhanced, where they display a description as […]

Excel has a habit of removing zeroes if they are the first digits in numbers. In some cases that isn’t an issue, but in the case of certain types of data, like zip codes, you might need to find a way to add leading zeroes in Excel so that the numbers are correct. Fortunately you […]

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 independent trait of each worksheet in a workbook, so it is entirely possible for you to have a single Excel workbook that contains multiple different view settings. Fortunately there is […]

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 or at work. If you need to know how many days fall between two dates, such as the beginning and end of a project, then you might be having difficulty […]

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 the printed sheet. But if you have a worksheet that you update periodically, you might find that the information currently contained within the header is no longer accurate, and that […]