Microsoft Excel is a crucial tool for anyone operating in modern business. But there are risks. For one thing, it can be intimidating for beginners. Furthermore, Excel errors can have devastating ...

Have you ever opened your spreadsheet only to find your carefully typed numbers missing their decimals, or worse, transformed into something like 2.95E+07? If yes, you’ve seen the downside of relying ...

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells. For example, ...

I used to think the "Save as type" drop-down menu in Excel was just a list of legacy junk. I was wrong. It's actually a toolkit of superpowers that can shrink massive workbooks, turn macros into ...

Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. It comes with basic spreadsheet functionality and ...

Your worksheets will be more polished and easy to read if you learn a few sophisticated formatting techniques. Most Excel users know how to apply basic numeric and text formats. But users who push ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...