When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Often when you install a new application, it asks you to make it the default program for certain file types. If you're too quick with the "Enter" key during installation, you might inadvertently grant ...

Earlier this week Microsoft gave us a video preview of the coming Office 2007 interface. Today, the company brings us yet another Office 2007 video, this time covering several of the new features ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsofts Excel application—widely used by much of the ...

One typical application for Excel is to find information in a list of data. The simplest way to do this is filtering the data so that Excel does the work of finding the pertinent information for you ...

Each line has a separate cell and overflows onto the neighboring cells. In this case, each of the four lines was entered in cells A1 through A4, respectively. In earlier Excel releases, it was ...

Spreadsheets contain many tools for analyzing and manipulating data. The trouble is much of the data CPAs need to analyze resides in company databases or on the Internet. So, after finding the ...

Have you ever wondered if Microsoft Excel was invented by a sadist? Trying to edit multiple files at one time becomes a game of “Find the worksheet.” You know that the feature you need is on one of ...