As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

Have you ever spent hours crafting a timeline chart, only to abandon it because it was too clunky, rigid, or just plain uninspiring? You’re not alone. Many tools promise sleek visuals but fall short ...

The Change Chart Type utility in Microsoft Excel features several graphs from which you can select to convert your current Excel chart into a graph. Choosing a new graph type from the utility ...

Many Excel users find themselves trapped in an endless cycle of watching tutorials without effectively applying what they’ve learned. This dependency on tutorials can hinder progress and prevent the ...

Microsoft Excel can present two series of data points together on the horizontal axis, but if the number scale for each series dramatically differs, the data will not be readable. Using a two-sided ...

We show you how to copy a formula in Excel without changing cell references, using mixed references and simple techniques to keep your formulas intact when moving or auto-filling. Microsoft Excel is a ...

Slicers provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface for filtering data in a spreadsheet. Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest ...

Applying shading to alternative rows (zebra stripe rows) in Excel makes your sheet easier to read. The effect, also known as banded row, allows your eyes to keep their place more easily when you’re ...

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