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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.

stop printing left-aligned spreadsheets

How to Stop Printing Left-Aligned Pages in Excel 2013

July 3, 2023June 2, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

An Excel 2013 spreadsheet that uses the default print settings will often be difficult for readers. It might also be off-centered, depending upon the number of …

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Categories Programs Tags Alignment, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Insert a Comment in Excel 2013

June 29, 2023June 1, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Sometimes a cell in an Excel worksheet requires a bit of explanation. But it may not be feasible to include that explanation in the cell …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
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Excel 2013 Formulas Not Working

July 17, 2023May 31, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

It can be frustrating, even problematic, when your Excel formulas are not working. We use formulas in our Excel spreadsheets to automatically calculate values for …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Enable Formula AutoComplete in Excel 2013

June 17, 2023May 27, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Are you familiar with a lot of the formulas in Excel, but you don’t remember the exact parameters that you need to use? Microsoft Excel …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
change page scale settings

Why is My Spreadsheet Printing So Small in Excel 2013?

September 20, 2023May 24, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

I have found that spreadsheets I receive from other people often have some formatting that is already applied. One big one is the print area, …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
different header on first page excel 2013

How to Use a Different Header for the First Page in Excel 2013

July 6, 2023May 23, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Headers and footers in an Excel spreadsheet offer a simple way to put repeating information at the top of every printed page of your spreadsheet. …

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Categories Programs Tags Header, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Turn Text Sideways in Excel

July 18, 2023May 18, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Text that you enter into the cells of an Excel 2013 spreadsheet is typically oriented from left to right. But there may be situations where …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Orientation
enable the fill handle in excel 2013

How to Enable the Fill Handle in Excel 2013

June 2, 2023May 16, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Manually entering a series of numbers into an Excel row or column can be tedious. It’s easy to start typing too quickly and enter an …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Selections
disable start screen in excel 2013

How to Skip the Start Screen When Opening Excel 2013

June 20, 2023May 9, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

While everyone that uses Microsoft Excel has their own tendencies and preferences, it is common among many of these users to choose a blank workbook …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Startup
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How to Use the Excel Fit on One Page Printing Option

June 9, 2023April 28, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel’s Print menu includes a lot of ways that you can format your spreadsheet for printing. However, some of these options are kind of …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
show sheet tabs in excel 2013

How to Show Missing Worksheet Tabs in Excel 2013

July 3, 2023April 28, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel workbooks with multiple worksheets are a great way to coordinate data that might not necessarily belong on the same worksheet, but that is relevant …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Tabs
click print area, then set print area

Excel 2013 – Set Print Area

July 15, 2023April 11, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel spreadsheets rarely print how you want them to, and properly configuring a spreadsheet for the physical page is often cited as one of the …

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

How to Hide Multiple Rows in Excel 2013

June 30, 2023March 30, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel gives you a lot of ways to store and edit the data in a worksheet. In fact, there are so many different options …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
insert picture in excel 2013 footer

How to Insert a Picture in the Footer in Excel 2013

June 30, 2023March 24, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Repeating information at the top of each printed page of an Excel spreadsheet is helpful when you wish to include a report name or some …

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Categories Programs Tags Header, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to zoom in excel 2013

How to Zoom in Excel 2013

June 29, 2023March 18, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Many Excel 2013 users will find that they need to adjust their print settings so that their spreadsheets fit better on a printed page. We …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Zoom
select the csv file type

How to Save as a CSV File in Excel 2013

July 6, 2023March 14, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 is compatible with a variety of different file formats, and you can even choose the default format in which Excel 2013 files are …

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Categories Programs Tags CSV, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to print titles in excel 2013

How to Print Titles in Excel 2013

August 3, 2023March 3, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Printing an Excel spreadsheet can be difficult when the data that you have is not ideally suited for a piece of paper. It can be helpful …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Titles
how to copy a worksheet in excel 2013

How to Copy a Worksheet in Excel 2013

July 27, 2023February 18, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

I’ve created many Excel workbooks that contain multiple copies of the same worksheet. Whether the workbook is for a weekly or monthly report where each …

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Categories Programs Tags Copying, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to shrink to fit in excel 2013

How to Shrink Text to Make it Fit in a Cell in Excel 2013

July 17, 2023February 15, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel has a variety of different view settings that you can customize to change the appearance of your data. Including among these options is …

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Categories Programs Tags Alignment, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
count the number of blank cells in a range in excel 2013

How to Count the Number of Blank Cells in a Range in Excel 2013

June 2, 2023February 8, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

When entering data into a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2013, it is not uncommon to have blank spaces that are missing data. On small spreadsheets, …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to find the day of the week from a date in excel 2013

How to Determine the Day of the Week from a Numerical Date in Excel 2013

May 30, 2023February 3, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 has a lot of helpful tools and tricks that you can use to find information about data contained in a worksheet. One of …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to hide comments and indicators in excel 2013

How to Hide Comments and Indicators in Excel 2013

July 20, 2023January 28, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Comments in Microsoft Excel 2013 allow you to identify a problem or question that you have about data in a cell without affecting the data …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Workbooks
combine two text columns in excel 2013

How to Combine Two Text Columns in Excel 2013

May 30, 2023January 26, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

There are many ways to store data in Excel spreadsheets, and one common choice is placing each piece of data in a separate column. This …

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Categories Programs Tags Concatenate, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
example of autocomplete

How to Enable AutoComplete in Excel 2013

July 18, 2023January 25, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 has an AutoComplete option that can be turned on or off depending on individual user preference. So if you use Excel 2013 on …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Utilities
prevent picture from printing in excel 2013

How to Prevent a Picture from Printing in Excel 2013

June 26, 2023January 22, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

There are many reasons why you might insert a picture into an Excel 2013 worksheet, but you may find that the picture is problematic when …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
print at 50 percent in excel 2013

How to Set a 50 Percent Print Scale in Excel 2013

June 27, 2023January 21, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel spreadsheets that span multiple pages can be difficult to read on the printed page. Fortunately, Excel has several tools that you can use to …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
trim leading spaces in excel 2013

How to Remove Leading Spaces in Excel 2013

July 3, 2023January 16, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

You might discover that you need to know how to remove leading spaces in Excel when you have data that is difficult to work with …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to format as date only in excel 2013

How to Only Display the Year for a Date in Excel 2013

July 5, 2023December 30, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

There are a lot of different options when it comes to formatting a date in Excel, and the variety of reasons that you might be …

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

How to Remove Gridlines in Excel 2013

June 8, 2023December 23, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

One of the most common changes made to Excel spreadsheets that are going to be printed is the addition of gridlines. We have discussed how …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
change default worksheets to one in excel 2013

How to Only Have One Worksheet by Default in Excel 2013

July 26, 2023December 21, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Most workbooks in Microsoft Excel 2013 will include three worksheets by default. Using multiple worksheets within an Excel workbook is helpful when you have a …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Workbooks
view list of worksheets in excel 2013

How to View a List of Worksheets in Excel 2013

June 1, 2023December 15, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Using multiple worksheets within an Excel 2013 workbook is common when you have a lot of data that you want to keep in the same …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
how to remove cell indentation in excel 2013

How to Remove Cell Indentation in Excel 2013

June 21, 2023December 11, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

It’s helpful to know how to remove indent in Excel when you encounter a spreadsheet where many of the cells have an unwanted space at …

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Categories Programs Tags Indenting, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to unhide a worksheet in excel 2013

How to Unhide a Worksheet in Excel 2013

May 30, 2023December 10, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

It’s common to hide a worksheet in Excel 2013 if it contains information that should not be edited, if the data on the sheet isn’t …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
uncheck the quickbooks option

How to Remove the Quickbooks Tab in Excel 2013

July 17, 2023December 8, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

The navigation within the Microsoft Excel 2013 program is centered around a series of tabs at the top of the window. Each of these tabs …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Ribbon
change the starting page number in excel 2013

How to Change the Starting Page Number in Excel 2013

July 26, 2023December 7, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

The default behavior for page numbering in Excel 2013 is to number the first page of the spreadsheet as “1”, then continue increasing that number …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Page Numbers
how to find row height in excel 2013

What is the Height of a Row in Excel 2013?

July 27, 2023December 4, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

While you may have already figured out how to change the height of a row or the width of a column by dragging their borders, …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
how to show sheet tabs in excel 2013

Why Can’t I See My Worksheet Tabs in Excel 2013?

June 22, 2023December 3, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel files are workbooks that can contain individual worksheets within them. You can learn more about the difference between workbooks and worksheets here. You …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Tabs
change worksheet direction in excel 2013

How to Put Excel Column A on Right Side

August 1, 2023November 20, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

There are some things that you take for granted in applications like Microsoft Excel that you use all the time. One of those things is …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Rotate Text in Excel 2013

July 7, 2023November 17, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Occasionally you might need to do something a little unusual in an Excel spreadsheet. This could mean adding a shape or an object or even …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Orientation
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How to Insert an Excel Spreadsheet Into Powerpoint 2013

July 18, 2023November 13, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel spreadsheets can be an effective way to communicate data in a Powerpoint presentation, but switching between multiple files is not an ideal solution. Fortunately, …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Microsoft Powerpoint 2013, Microsoft Powerpoint How-To Guides, Worksheets
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Remove the Line Through My Text in Excel 2013

August 2, 2023November 2, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

There are a lot of different formatting choices that you can make for the data in your Excel 2013 worksheets. Whether you wish to format …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Strikethrough
check the developer box

Where is the Developer Tab in Excel 2013?

May 30, 2023May 6, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

The navigational system in Microsoft Excel 2013 is based around a ribbon of tools and options at the top of the window. Different settings and …

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Categories Programs Tags Macros, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Fix a Slow Cursor in Excel 2013

July 28, 2023May 6, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Is your mouse moving slowly in Microsoft Excel 2013, making it difficult for you to perform the functions that you need? This can occur because …

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Categories Programs Tags Hardware Acceleration, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
clear the formats

How to Remove Cell Formatting from Selected Cells in Excel 2010

July 20, 2023April 15, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Almost every Excel user has encountered a situation where the data that they enter into a cell is not displaying the way that they intended. …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Selections
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What Are Three Ways to Change Column Width in Excel?

July 20, 2023January 22, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel has a lot of different tools and settings, many of which allow you to perform the same action in multiple ways. One of …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
find the clear contents command on the ribbon

How to Delete Data But Keep Formatting in Excel

June 29, 2023December 29, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Formatting in an Excel spreadsheet can be a very important thing to people reading the spreadsheet. It can add a level of organization and recognition …

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Categories Programs Tags Deleting, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Remove Shading in Excel 2013

July 20, 2023December 18, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Some people like to use a lot of color in their Excel spreadsheets because it helps them find important information more quickly. But you might …

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Categories Programs Tags Fill Color, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
delete the old link, then paste in the new link

How to Edit a Link in Excel 2013

July 28, 2023December 15, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Adding a link to a cell in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet makes it easy for readers of your spreadsheet to visit a Web page that …

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Categories Programs Tags Hyperlinks, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
right-click the picture, then click hyperlink

How to Add a Link to a Picture in Excel 2013

July 21, 2023December 12, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Adding hyperlinks to documents is a simple and effective way to direct someone to information that is useful or important. Microsoft Excel allows you to …

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Categories Programs Tags Hyperlinks, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
enter the desired row height

Where Do I Set the Cell Height in Excel 2013?

June 19, 2023December 12, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Your Microsoft Exccel spreadsheet contains rows and columns where your data can be edited, formatted, and sorted. Occasionally those rows might be too short or …

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