To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.

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While Excel is a powerful tool for organizing data and performing complex calculations, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of ...

Tracking the time your employees take off needn't cause you a headache. With Microsoft Excel you can set up a workbook that can organize all sick days, personal days and any other days you need to ...

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Excel macros are like mini-programs that perform repetitive tasks, saving you a lot of time and typing. For example, it takes Excel less than one-tenth of a second to calculate an entire, massive ...

Q. I often use watermarks in Microsoft Word to indicate that the document is a “Draft” or “Confidential.” However, the options to create a watermark are not in Microsoft Excel. I want to indicate that ...

Microsoft recently made some significant enhancements to its Visio add-in for Excel, enabling users to create Visio diagrams from within Excel. Here's how it works. Even though Visio is easily one of ...