Staring at gray grids all day? Same here—until I learned a one-step visual hack for Excel. It’s fast, doesn’t need fancy add-ons, and instantly makes data clearer and more fun to work with. There's a ...

There are hidden features that sometimes even Excel pros discover after years of using the program. You might know how to build a bar chart and a pivot table, and you must definitely have struggled ...

Enhancements in the .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 make Office automation solutions easier than ever to write and deploy. Here's an Excel automation scenario that reflects solutions that I've ...

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a ...