When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Excel grays out menu commands for unavailable features or functions. To unlock the grayed-out menus, first review the most common causes, then take the steps necessary make the menu active. By default ...

If you’re a full-time spreadsheet jockey, or just a casual number-cruncher, you’ve come to know and either love or hate Excel’s interface. Well, your world just changed. Throw away almost everything ...

One typical application for Excel is to find information in a list of data. The simplest way to do this is filtering the data so that Excel does the work of finding the pertinent information for you ...

Q: I am using Microsoft Excel 2007. I put =77.1*850 into a cell, and I got the answer of 10,000 instead of 65,535. What's going on? A: This is a documented bug in Excel 2007. The number 65,535 is a ...

Mastering Excel takes some experience and patience, but it’s easy to make mistakes even if you’ve been using it for a long time. Sometimes, choices seem like a brilliant idea–until they’re not, and ...

Each line has a separate cell and overflows onto the neighboring cells. In this case, each of the four lines was entered in cells A1 through A4, respectively. In earlier Excel releases, it was ...

When you have a lot of data in an Excel worksheet it often becomes necessary to summarize the information to get to the crux of what it is telling you. There are a number of ways to do this in Excel, ...

If you cannot open the Excel file from its location, simply open any Excel file and click the File tab. Then, go to Open > Browse and select the file giving error ...