When you're setting up a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains date information, you'll speed your task if you let Excel do the tedious work of filling in columns of individual date entries.

Let’s say you have student information in a worksheet where students’ last names, first names, and ID numbers are in Column A. If you want their first name and last name to appear in Column B, you ...

Susan Harkins shows you two easy ways to populate an Excel UserForm, and neither requires a single bit of VBA code. Last month’s article, “Pro tip: Add a UserForm to aid data entry in Excel,” shares ...

Excel formulas are a powerful way to quickly manipulate and display the data in your spreadsheets to your exact specifications. Once you've created an effective formula for your data, you may want to ...

Managing date lists in Excel can often feel repetitive and time-consuming when done manually. However, Excel provides a range of powerful tools to streamline this process, allowing you to save time ...

Populating a combo box isn’t hard, but getting the combo box to communicate with a constantly changing list is a little more difficult. Learn how to populate your combo box with a dynamic list.

An curved arrow pointing right. We all know and love the Auto Fill feature in Excel. Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in your ...

I used to hate cleaning data in an Excel sheet because it was tedious and repetitive. It often took longer than expected, not because the work itself was difficult, but because I needed time to build ...

Have you ever opened an Excel spreadsheet and felt instantly overwhelmed by its endless rows, columns, and cryptic formulas? You’re not alone. Many people see Excel as a labyrinth of complexity, ...

Microsoft Excel has been the premier spreadsheet software for decades, since outdoing the once venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. And Excel's dominance has yet to be ...