Although Excel, the Microsoft Office spreadsheet program, has a few specialized financial formulas built in to the software program, the accounting format for spreadsheet cells has the most general ...

For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that ...

Microsoft is starting to enable the restriction of Excel 4.0 macros (XLM) by default for users of Excel in subscriptions, starting with Excel build 16.0.14427.20000 and newer releases, according to a ...

Microsoft has disabled Excel 4.0 macros by default in the latest release of its spreadsheet software to help customers protect themselves against related security threats. That setting, released as an ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2017. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. Is it possible in ...

Most Excel users spend their time navigating ribbons, building formulas, and formatting cells, all while completely ignoring ...

If you want to change the default Excel worksheet direction, you need to go through this article to learn the steps. There are three ways to change the default direction of an Excel worksheet – using ...

Excel grays out menu commands for unavailable features or functions. To unlock the grayed-out menus, first review the most common causes, then take the steps necessary make the menu active. By default ...

Reader Jackolyn wrote in with this question: “I am the newsletter editor for our church newsletter and Excel is driving me crazy with its KARTIKA font. Each time I try to type info in a calendar cell, ...

How to make the default area chart in Microsoft Excel more attractive Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel produces great charts, but sometimes they’re not visually pleasing. Learn how to change a ...

In this post, we will show you how to change the default color, shape and font of a comment box in Excel. Microsoft Excel allows you to add comments to cells within worksheets. These comments could ...