Automated Data Entry in Excel. One way businesses can save time and money is using Excel spreadsheets as data tables in which to store customer information, inventory details or other important data.

Again, select the Data tab in Excel. Click on the Data Validation icon to reveal a dropdown menu. From that menu, you must select Clear Validation Circles.

Discover two powerful Excel formula methods to unpivot data. Transform cross-tab layouts into analysis-ready formats without Power Query.

An Excel Web Query allows you to retrieve the latest real-time data and insert it in your spreadsheet. However, Web Query does not refresh data in the table automatically.

The most basic example of a GETPIVOTDATA formula in Microsoft Excel is when the function is used to retrieve a grand total of ...

Microsoft's Money in Excel, introduced in April, is now a downloadable Excel template that can import live transactions from your bank, credit cards, and more, and analyze them.

Utilizing Excel functions like TRIM, CLEAN, and SUBSTITUTE refines data. Implementing data validation prevents incorrect data entry. Using Text to Columns organizes combined data for better analysis.

Excel has announced a new array-based function called SORT, which can be used to sort data in one or more columns without involving a manual sort process or a complicated macro process.

Knowing how to alphabetize in Excel can be a real time-saver. Here, we look at how to alphabetize columns (and even rows) in an Excel spreadsheet.