Ultimately, when using Microsoft Excel, aim to make your spreadsheet easy to read and your data easy to manipulate. Avoiding the formatting habits discussed in this article will go a long way in ...

Microsoft is testing out a new =COPILOT function in Excel cells – it's in beta with improvements needed, but you can try it ...

A. Format cells that meet these value conditions 1. Open a sales spreadsheet or enter a dozen names with sales totals for the first four months of 2017; that is, Jan, Feb, Mar, and Apr.

Microsoft Excel’s RANK.EQ () function ranks a set of values, but in a busy sheet, the top-ranking items might get lost. You can combine RANK.EQ () with a conditional formatting rule to highlight ...

Hidden sheets won’t show up in the list either, but there’s less of a need to rename hidden sheets than the sheets users interact with. SEE: Why Microsoft Lists is the new Excel (TechRepublic) 5.

Excel is known for automatically formatting certain entries, which is often useful but sometimes annoying. This automatic function can now be deactivated on an individual level. We'll show you how.

To clear formatting from the selected cells in your workbook in Microsoft Excel, you can use Clear Formats, Keyboard shortcuts, Format Painter tool, etc.

How to Auto-Format the Date in MS Excel. When you create Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that contain one or more columns of dates, you can make things a bit easier if you pre-format your cells to ...

We're using a spreadsheet that includes dates of hire for employees of a fictitious company, to show different ways to format dates in Excel. 1. Highlight the date cells you want to format. 2.