People use the multipurpose Microsoft Excel for everything from logging scientific spreadsheets rife with calculations and charts, to tracking quarterly sales of widgets, to cataloging the books in ...

Microsoft Excel 2007 has math problems. Over the weekend some folks in the Microsoft Excel Google Group reported that cell operations like =77.1*850 return erroneous results (in this case Excel ...

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 ...

If you work with multiple Excel files over the course of a workday, and especially if you use a dual-monitor setup, you might wonder how you can launch each Excel file in its own window so you can ...

As we mentioned last month, Microsoft Excel 2007 was plagued by a fairly serious math flaw that could affect spreadsheet data. Today, the Excel team at Microsoft has released a patch which addresses ...

The "productivity suite" everyone loves to hate - Microsoft Office - is coming out with a brand spankin' new version with Windows Vista next month later this month. I've only played with Office 2007 ...

Spreadsheets contain many tools for analyzing and manipulating data. The trouble is much of the data CPAs need to analyze resides in company databases or on the Internet. So, after finding the ...

With an outline in place, you can click the + and – markers to display or hide parts of the worksheet data When you have a lot of data in an Excel worksheet it often becomes necessary to summarize the ...

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