Making a household budget is one of the most important steps toward getting your spending under control and building a strong financial foundation for you and your family. It helps you prioritize ...

Combine the navigational features of hyperlinks with the organizational capabilities of a table of contents, and you get a powerful new way to manage large Excel workbooks. You can create an Excel TOC ...

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that you can use to record data, make calculations and create charts. In this article I’ll introduce you to the basics of working in Excel. We’ll look at ...

If you regularly need your employees to record information such as the number of hours they've worked or how many sales they've made over the course of their shifts, creating a pro-forma ...

Microsoft Office brings support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros back to the Mac. But if you haven’t used VBA before, you might be wondering what you can actually use it for and how ...

No one deliberately creates a worksheet that contains errors. The sad truth, however, is that many people unwittingly do just that and end up with a worksheet that doesn’t give correct results. This ...

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Nearly every Microsoft Excel workbook I own—especially those I share with others—contains a hidden backend worksheet. It's essentially the engine room of my workbook and helps me keep my spreadsheets ...

If you have a number of Microsoft Excel worksheets that contain related data, you'll likely need to create a report that consolidates and summarizes the data. If those worksheets are laid out ...

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 ...