In Microsoft Excel, a program packaged with Microsoft Office, you can create databases of information and then make calculations, graphs and charts based on that data. It's a handy program to have if ...

If you update recurring data, such as monthly sales figures, you might create a copy of a completed sheet to use as a starting point. For instance, when you’re ready to start tracking February’s sales ...

Whenever you create a new Excel document, you are opening what is called a "workbook." Each workbook can have multiple worksheets. If your small business sells fruit, you might have an Excel workbook ...

Microsoft’s updated spreadsheet tool isn’t getting a lot of new, whiz-bang features, but it is becoming more functional. That’s something both new and experienced users will enjoy—especially a new ...