As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ever imagined. These are the tips and tricks you need to know.

Microsoft Office, which contains the desktop publishing applications PowerPoint, Excel and Word, offers small businesses several options for managing, organizing and formatting data. Forms created in ...

If you need a visual clue to hype a worksheet, use Excel’s Conditional Formatting feature to help values stand out. If you maintain inventory in an Excel worksheet, you probably need to know when ...

From simpler data entry and faster cell selection to quicker analysis and better dashboards, Excel has useful features even ...

Have you ever spent hours perfecting your Excel spreadsheet, only to watch your carefully crafted formatting fall apart the moment you insert a new row? It’s a maddeningly common issue for Excel users ...

When you use Microsoft Excel to analyze your company's data, you want to spot trends, successes and problems at a glance. Before you dive into an in-depth examination of specific sales results, ...

If your subtotaling rows are lost in a sea of worksheet data, use this simple conditional formatting technique to make those rows easy to spot. Excel’s Subtotal feature is a great way to quickly ...

One of Excel’s greatest tricks is the dimensional or 3D reference. This feature, which allows you to create formulas that refer to the same cell or range on multiple worksheets, simplifies the ...