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

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might realize. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know. Desktop-based Excel simply does everything one could ask for in a spreadsheet.

You can easily create a drop-down list in Excel to limit the values that can be entered in a column. Here's how to set one up ...

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 ...

Spreadsheets, which are similar to databases, can help you visualize and manage data entities and values that make up your company's customer information repository. If that information doesn't reside ...

Excel and Access are two software applications which belong to the Microsoft Office suite. You can create a data file in a spreadsheet format using Access and then later open the file and work on it ...

In my post today, I’m going to show you how to use GoogleDocs and Google Calendar to create a dynamic calendar for a course. This calendar can be displayed as a web page or embedded in a course web ...

Organization can make or break any travel experience. Sure, it’s tempting to romanticize the life of the rugged backpacker, but there’s probably room for a laptop or phone in that backpack. And if you ...

With a little time, typing and easy-to-use software, you can quickly see your financial picture much more thoroughly and better plan for the future. By J. D. Biersdorfer It’s January and you’ve gone ...

Thanks to a suggestion from Macworld reader David Erato, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks immersed in spreadsheet applications…no, not on my Mac, but on my iPhone. David was curious how well the ...

This Excel spreadsheet uses conditional formatting to highlight the resistor pairs in a design that can create a particular ratio. The target ratio is entered in cell C3, and the tolerance is entered ...