Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

‘Insert Data from Picture’ is a special feature in the Excel mobile app for Android and iOS. It allows you to snap a picture of the data present in rows and columns on a paper and convert it into ...

Q. I spend a substantial amount of time entering data into Excel. Do you have any suggestions on ways to make this faster and/or more efficient? A. One of the best data-entry tools to use in Excel is ...

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...

Your summarizations, analyses, projections, reports and so on, are only as good as your data. It’s important that you use every resource available to protect the validity of the data, which means you ...

How to transfer data from Word forms to an Excel worksheet Your email has been sent Avoid the hassle of manually importing Word form data into Excel. With the help of an Excel wizard, you can quickly ...

Microsoft Excel offers several tools you can use when you need to fill a column with the same text or numbers. Instead of completing each cell manually, you can quickly fill in the entire column using ...

There are two kinds of Microsoft Excel users in the world: Those who make neat little tables, and those who amaze their colleagues with sophisticated charts, data analysis, and seemingly magical ...

When you start fresh in Microsoft Excel, you have two options to enter data – horizontal and vertical. But after entering vertical or columnar data, it can lead to errors to try to retype or drag cell ...