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 ...
To manually crop a picture in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, select it, and in the Picture Format tab on the ribbon, click the top half of the split "Crop" button.
You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool, which is a great way to organize lots of data.