Microsoft Excel lets you format tables, adding borders and colors, and lets you format the text in them, editing font, size and style. A spreadsheet may contain a number of tables, giving you several ...

It’s not easy to fool Excel, but with a few extra clicks, you can work around this odd pasting behavior. If you paste formatted values into a cell with another applied format, the pasted format wins.

Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don’t want to change the cell references. Microsoft Excel has a ...