One of the things I don’t like about Excel 2008 is that setting zoom levels is a bit more complex than it need be. If you use Excel’s View -> Zoom menu, this opens a new window, from which you then ...

You can freeze columns in Excel with a few clicks, and then unfreeze them when you no longer need to view them statically.

You can freeze a row in Excel through the "Freeze Panes" menu. This lets you scroll through a spreadsheet without that frozen data leaving the screen.

Hide everything but the working area in an Excel worksheet Your email has been sent If you’ve ever opened a Microsoft Excel workbook to find no columns, rows and/or scrollbars, this is probably why: ...

Microsoft’s updated spreadsheet tool isn’t getting a lot of new, whiz-bang features, but it is becoming more functional. That’s something both new and experienced users will enjoy—especially a new ...