Each Microsoft Excel worksheet is broken up into cells. Each cell is part of a column. Excel's myriad formatting tools let you add colors, formulas and borders almost anywhere in a worksheet. You can ...

Do you want to split a single column of text into multiple columns in your Excel spreadsheet? Using the Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at ...

Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or ...

Excel handles numbers beautifully, but it's frustratingly picky about text. When you treat cells like a Word doc, like manually typing units or ignoring hidden spaces, you're onto a loser. Here's how ...