Drop-down lists in Microsoft Excel (and Word and Access) allow you to create a list of valid choices that you or others can select for a given field. This is especially useful for fields that require ...

While Excel is a powerful tool for organizing data and performing complex calculations, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of numbers and bland cells. At times, when you deal with large databases, your ...

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Microsoft has added AI to those software programs of yesteryear with Agent Mode for both Word and Excel. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent Mode can help anyone -- even those with little ...

Excel's PivotTable feature lets you organize and summarize data into a meaningful report format without changing the data set. Beyond reporting, PivotTables offer a quick and easy way to analyze ...

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When you use MySQL to query a database, you have the ability to view results from that query on your screen or send them to a text file. If you insert tab characters into the output data stream, you ...

When I first got into desktop computers in the late 1970s we hadto write our own programs, because none had yet been created forthese new, mysterious devices. The first commercial program tobecome ...

Usually, if you share an Excel spreadsheet with someone, that person is able to freely edit the spreadsheet. In some cases, you may want to send someone a spreadsheet with data but you also want to ...