To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.

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A Column Chart can be used to create the most common form of a timeline in Excel, which consists of a horizontal layout with a time-based X-axis and events or milestones plotted along it. To create a ...

You may want to create mandatory fields in your Excel spreadsheet -- fields that must be filled in before you can save the document. When a field is made mandatory, there is no risk of leaving out ...

Excel macros are like mini-programs that perform repetitive tasks, saving you a lot of time and typing. For example, it takes Excel less than one-tenth of a second to calculate an entire, massive ...

At first glance, Microsoft Excel and the sport of basketball may not seem like obvious companions, but if you organize tournaments for basketball or any other sport, creating elimination brackets ...

Microsoft recently made some significant enhancements to its Visio add-in for Excel, enabling users to create Visio diagrams from within Excel. Here's how it works. Even though Visio is easily one of ...