Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

For a business leader, Microsoft Excel 2010 can be an invaluable tool for monitoring inventory, recording customer information or keeping track of business processes. Over time, these Excel ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

While working with Microsoft Excel sheets, you might need to remove the first few characters, the last few characters, or both from the text. Removing the first few characters from a column of texts ...

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In the November 2004 Tech Q&A column (page 85) I wrote with absolute confidence that there is no easy way to change the case of text in Excel. Within three weeks of the publication date, 435 ...

Q. I am trying to create a formula in our accounting system, but I keep getting errors. What can I do to get the formula to work? A. All Excel users know how powerful formulas are, but sometimes it ...

You can enable macros in Excel using the Trust Center or enable a specific macro from the security warning at the top of a spreadsheet.