Microsoft Excel spreadsheets hold more than a million rows of data and automate number crunching, but they can do so much more. Excel’s simple interface lends itself to uses well beyond those ...

Excel can solve for unknown variables, either for a single cell with Goal Seek or multiple cells with Solver.

Performance becomes an issue with large datasets too. A poorly written macro can bog down Excel and take forever to complete, ...

Excel 2007's new table feature eliminates the need to copy formulas; once you define a data range as a table, Excel will do it for you!

It’s Not Just for Budgeting Sure, you can use Excel to keep track of your monthly or yearly household budget. But in its most basic form, the program is just a series of boxes.

What you can do with Excel on mobile depends on the screen size. Mobile apps You may have noticed you can get Microsoft Word for Android and iOS, and Microsoft Excel for Android and iOS.

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be ...

Q. Is there a quick way in Excel to calculate the number of business days in a particular period? For example, a CPA preparing payroll may need to determine how many business days he or she has to ...

Excel has a versatile If, Then function built right into it. We’ll show you how to use the IF function in Excel with a number of helpful examples.