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
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
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
Since Microsoft Excel spreadsheets often rely on the precision of data that is entered into cells, it’s helpful to be using the unit of measurement that is native to your current location, or that is native to the location of the people that will be using that data. Like the rest of the programs in … Read more
Does the font style that is used when you create new workbooks in Excel seem unappealing or tough to read? If you as the creator of that spreadsheet are having difficulty reading the information, then it’s likely that your audience will, too. While you can change the font of existing text in a spreadsheet, it … Read more
The cells in your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet are split up into rows or columns that run horizontally or vertically across the screen or the page. You can type data, or copy and paste data, into your cells, then you can format it or perform mathematical operations upon it. But you might discover that you need … Read more
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 can definitely encounter situations where text boxes are a preferable choice for some data or information. The ability to move the text box alone can make it appealing, and you … Read more
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 information belongs to which row. One way to improve this is to set a column to repeat the left side of each page in Excel. No matter what you use … Read more