Microsoft Excel has four cell modes—Ready, Enter, Edit, and Point. Having the correct cell mode activated is crucial for effective data entry management, formula creation, and cell modification, and ...

Susan Harkins shows you how to format and unlock input cells in Excel at the same time by assigning a modified style. It’s common to highlight input cells so users know which values to change, and ...

Three ways to control Excel’s cursor movement during data entry Your email has been sent Data entry can be a thankless job and if Excel doesn’t cooperate, it can be a hateful job. Fortunately, you can ...

Discover how Excel's Goal Seek reverses calculations to find input values from known outcomes and enhances your data analysis skills.

Microsoft Excel is an incredibly capable and complex spreadsheet program. If you’re just getting your feet wet, these tips will help you get started on making a spreadsheet and writing a formula. Once ...

The Alt+Enter shortcut isn't limited to new formulas you write—you can go back and clean up any messy formulas at any time.

Properly formatting expressions such as "H2O" in your Excel spreadsheet requires the use of subscripts. Subscript formatting makes a letter or number appear smaller and slightly below the rest of the ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...