When you start fresh in Microsoft Excel, you have two options to enter data – horizontal and vertical. But after entering vertical or columnar data, it can lead to errors to try to retype or drag cell ...

Have you ever been overwhelmed by messy spreadsheets or struggled to collect data in an organized way? Imagine a scenario where instead of juggling multiple tabs and rows, you could guide users ...

Automating data entry in Microsoft Excel offers a practical solution to enhance efficiency, minimize errors, and streamline data collection processes. This guide by Kevin Stratvert outlines a ...

If the numbers you need to crunch come from the Web, then you’ll need an efficient way to get it into Microsoft Excel. There are several ways you can do this, and one method even allows for automatic ...

Your summarizations, analyses, projections, reports and so on, are only as good as your data. It’s important that you use every resource available to protect the validity of the data, which means you ...

If you support users who have trouble entering data and printing an Excel sheet, use this eight-step approach to create a foolproof form. It’s just too easy to kvetch about how incompetent some end ...

Microsoft Excel provides a user-friendly method of entering, storing and organizing a large variety of data. Transferring Excel data into MathWork's MATLAB technical analysis suite opens up a new ...

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

While Microsoft Excel is widely recognized for its spreadsheet functionality and calculation capabilities, it’s often overlooked as a powerful tool for managing small to medium-sized datasets. When ...