Most times, attackers use Excel spreadsheets to spread malware or inject trojans into your computer. Although there are many ways to do that, macros are the most common thing they use. That is why you ...

When you edit the values on your Microsoft Excel worksheet, pressing the "F9" button refreshes the calculation manually. To avoid the tedious task of repetitively pressing this button and risking an ...

When you get into a car to drive it for the first time, you adjust the seat, the mirrors, and maybe even the steering wheel’s position. You want to make sure that it’s a comfortable fit before you set ...

Stop fighting the Excel ribbon.

There are times when Microsoft Excel fails to work as intended, and as such, the best you can do in some situations is to reset the application back to factory settings. Out of all the other methods, ...

Whether you're an experienced Excel pro or you've just switched from another spreadsheet software, many of the default settings make the program frustrating to use. But you don't have to settle for ...

Q. I have lost some or all of my work a few times in Excel. I can recover most of it because of AutoRecover, but quite a bit of it is sometimes missing. Is there a way to AutoRecover closer to real ...

Excel has several advanced sorting options, but most of us never venture beyond the ordinary alphabetic and numeric sorts. If you need more than a simple sort, check out Excel’s advanced sorting ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I just got a new computer in November, equipped with Windows 10. I purchased and installed Microsoft Office.

Microsoft Excel's form controls can turn the Boolean options of a true-false choice into a clickable data-entry option. If you create spreadsheets to record business information about sales, personnel ...