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 ...

Combo boxes are a useful way of entering data into an Excel spreadsheet, combining the flexibility of a text field with the convenience of a list box. Combo boxes provide you with a list of choices ...

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the ...

You can easily create a drop-down list in Excel to limit the values that can be entered in a column. Here's how to set one up ...

Discover 87 Excel tips and tricks that will take you from a beginner to a pro. Improve your efficiency, productivity and skills with these helpful Excel techniques. Microsoft Excel was first released ...

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 ...

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 ...

Importing data into Excel from other sources can a real headache, especially if you’re copying and pasting from an Internet source. Data that’s exported from a mainframe; from another program such as ...

Take a picture of something with the Microsoft Excel mobile app, and it will turn the photograph into editable text inside a spreadsheet. Here's how to do it. As how-to editor, Jason unpacks modern ...

You can remove duplicates in Excel in a few steps. Duplicates can create problems when you're dealing with data.