If you regularly need your employees to record information such as the number of hours they've worked or how many sales they've made over the course of their shifts, creating a pro-forma ...

Combine the navigational features of hyperlinks with the organizational capabilities of a table of contents, and you get a powerful new way to manage large Excel workbooks. You can create an Excel TOC ...

When you launch Excel you will see an empty worksheet divided by horizontal and vertical lines into a grid – the intersection of a column and a row is called a cell. If you click-and-drag the cursor ...

One of Excel’s greatest tricks is the dimensional or 3D reference. This feature, which allows you to create formulas that refer to the same cell or range on multiple worksheets, simplifies the ...

Nearly every Microsoft Excel workbook I own—especially those I share with others—contains a hidden backend worksheet. It's essentially the engine room of my workbook and helps me keep my spreadsheets ...

Q. I have an Excel workbook with dozens of custom-named worksheets. Is it possible to create a list of those worksheet names in Excel without having to retype them? A. Yes, you can create a list of ...

If you have a number of Microsoft Excel worksheets that contain related data, you’ll likely need to create a report that consolidates and summarizes the data. If those worksheets are laid out ...

Thanks to a suggestion from Macworld reader David Erato, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks immersed in spreadsheet applications…no, not on my Mac, but on my iPhone. David was curious how well the ...