Being able to view page numbers in a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet either on screen or in a printed layout is often very useful for users whose spreadsheet content spans multiple pages. In order ...

Excel's PIVOTBY function allows you to group your figures without needing to recreate your data in a PivotTable. What's more, data summaries created via PIVOTBY automatically update to reflect changes ...

If you support users who have trouble entering data and printing an Excel sheet, use this eight-step approach to create a foolproof form. It’s just too easy to kvetch about how incompetent some end ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number. This can be hard-coded inside double quotes or a reference to a cell ...

Ideally, any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains names and addresses breaks up each category of information into separate columns for each significant part. That means, for example, that an ...

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If the Excel cell format is not changing to a number because the Number formatting is not working, take these steps to fix the issue. Remove both the Decimal and Thousand separators Numbers are ...

While using Microsoft Excel for data analysis, you may sometimes need to search for and retrieve specific values. In such cases, Excel's LOOKUP function can be extremely useful. It allows you to ...