Microsoft Excel's UNIQUE function does exactly as its name suggests—it extracts unique values from an array. In other words, ...

Q: We receive documents in paper form, and I have to type information from them into our system. Is there an easier way to digitize this information into Excel? A: Excel allows you to extract data ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

Excel sheets read data in cells using cell references, which are the addresses that identify each cell. Visual Basic macros also read data using cell references, extracting data by reading the cell's ...

What if you could take the chaos of a sprawling Excel spreadsheet and distill it into exactly the information you need—no fluff, no manual sifting, just precision? For anyone who’s ever wrestled with ...

Excel spreadsheets can contain many types of data, including text, calculations and charts. If you need to use any of this information in your business' Word documents, there are different methods you ...

Remember PDF to Word, the free Web service that converts PDFs into editable Word documents? Now there's a number-minded equivalent: PDF to Excel turns PDFs into Excel-compatible spreadsheets. (That ...