When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Excel grays out menu commands for unavailable features or functions. To unlock the grayed-out menus, first review the most common causes, then take the steps necessary make the menu active. By default ...

When most users open Office 2007’s Excel—launched with Microsoft’s new Vista operating system—their first reaction is, “ Where’s the file menu? How do I begin?” This article is designed to help you ...

One typical application for Excel is to find information in a list of data. The simplest way to do this is filtering the data so that Excel does the work of finding the pertinent information for you ...

Earlier this week Microsoft gave us a video preview of the coming Office 2007 interface. Today, the company brings us yet another Office 2007 video, this time covering several of the new features ...

Microsoft has issued a fix for the calculation bug that was discovered in Excel 2007: Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today ...

When you have a lot of data in an Excel worksheet it often becomes necessary to summarize the information to get to the crux of what it is telling you. There are a number of ways to do this in Excel, ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Have you ever wondered if Microsoft Excel was invented by a sadist? Trying to edit multiple files at one time becomes a game of “Find the worksheet.” You know that the feature you need is on one of ...

Mastering Excel takes some experience and patience, but it’s easy to make mistakes even if you’ve been using it for a long time. Sometimes, choices seem like a brilliant idea–until they’re not, and ...