Excel spreadsheets can contain very large amounts of data. Individual items of data on the sheet are rarely as important as cumulative totals or broad trends. To summarize long sheets, businesses ...

In Microsoft Excel, the well-known and widely used spreadsheet software, you can use letters to represent values. So, for instance, instead of subtracting 5 from 10, you can subtract x from y. This ...

Excel provides three functions for generating random values: RAND(), RANDARRAY(), and RANDBETWEEN(), but there’s no comparable function for generating random letters. The truth is, most of won’t need ...

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In this post, we will show you how to capitalize the first letter of a text string in Microsoft Excel. When exporting data to Excel, text strings are often not properly formatted. They may appear in ...

I hesitate to question Tim Harford. However, I believe his article on Excel spreadsheets (Spectrum, June 26) has done those humble boxes a disservice. The advantage of seeing lots of errors in your ...