Mastering a few high-impact tools like formatting and tables is the best way to get started in Excel.

Do you like menus? Menus tend to be overlooked in the desire to show every possible option at once in a toolbar or palette, but the nice thing about a menu is that its there when you need it and out ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...

Are all or some menu options greyed out in Excel for you? Some Office users have reported that certain or many menus are grayed out in their Excel sheets. Whenever they try to click on such menus, the ...

Use Excel’s built-in features to simplify data entry Your email has been sent Entering data into a worksheet can be time-consuming, and mistakes often find their way in -- but with the right tools, ...

If anyone is familiar with Excel ver. Office XP, their help would be greatly appreciated. I am doing a lot of work with the Goal Seek... capability of Excel, which will change the value of one cell ...

Stop guessing! Susan Harkins shows you how to use Excel's Goal Seek what-if analysis tool to achieve your goals. If you ask me, Excel’s what-if analysis tools are under-used. I often respond to ...