Still far and away the most powerful, and now the easiest-to-use, worksheet app. Except for a few scientific and financial-analysis tasks, it's the first and only choice for manipulating numeric data.

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Necessity is the mother of invention, or so the old English saying goes, but so is inconvenience and the irritation that stems from it. The shortcomings of some pretty widely used MS apps have moved a ...

The unparalleled data manipulation and stats organizing tool Microsoft Excel is no doubt a time saving app, but just like its sister tools Word and PowerPoint, it too has some hidden features. By ...

An economics paper claiming that high levels of national debt led to low or negative economic growth could turn out to be deeply flawed as a result of, among other things, an incorrect formula in an ...

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In 1985, Microsoft launched MS Excel product for the business clients to help them manage their financial data and accounting problems with this organised application. Since then, with continuous ...

Microsoft Office is designed so you can import data from one Office program to another seamlessly. For example, you can import Word document data and even whole Word documents in their entirety into ...

We’ll take you through a step-by-step guide on how to open an XML file in Excel, Word, Chrome, and Edge. Let’s get started. It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to ...