When you’re creating an application in Microsoft Excel often times you will want to give your user a way to enter values in a cell that does not involve them having to type them. Spinners and ...

Cells in Excel are referred to using relative or absolute references. A formula with relative references changes when the cell's position does. If, for example, a cell has a formula "=A1" and you copy ...

There are several ways to create maps in Microsoft Excel 2007. While you can always paste map images into a worksheet or even draw your own maps using the shape and line tools, most businesses need ...

You can create a PivotTable in Excel from an external data source, a table in your worksheet, or a pre-built data model. To ...

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

Using Excel’s PivotTables and PivotCharts, you can quickly analyze large data sets, summarize key data, and present it in easy-to-read format. Here’s how to get started with these powerful tools.

Over the last few months, I’ve written several articles about Excel’s newish dynamic array functions. In many cases, they can replace older, more complex expressions. The new functions do all that ...

Slicers provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface for filtering data in a spreadsheet. Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest ...

Susan Harkins shows you how to combine a function and conditional formatting to highlight weekends and holidays using Excel. Weekends and holidays are important to most of us. Besides enjoying the ...

Q. Could you explain how the AGGREGATE function works in Excel? A. AGGREGATE is possibly the most versatile function in Excel. Think of it as an advanced version of the SUBTOTAL function that offers ...