How to Insert a Caret in Excel. Excel, a spreadsheet program in the Microsoft Office suite, allows for the entry of special Unicode characters, such as the caret, tilde, pound sign or asterisk.

Kelly L. Williams, CPA, Ph.D., explains how to insert bullets into an Excel spreadsheet.

You can insert blanks rows above or below another in Excel, and you can even add them between each row that has data.

Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet software known for its wealth of number-crunching abilities, can now also become your go-to for task management system.