Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

Here's how to build smarter checklists in Excel using checkboxes, conditional formatting and task dependencies to help with multi-step processes. In my previous article in this series, I walked you ...

Sparklines in Excel are tiny charts that fit within a single cell and give a quick visual summary of data trends. They are especially useful for comparing patterns in rows of data, such as increases, ...

While Excel's charts are excellent tools for displaying complex data in more understandable ways, sometimes, you might want to quickly visualize your numbers in a simpler way that also takes up less ...

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Data entry can be a grueling process in Microsoft Office Excel, especially if you have left out a key component in a column, such as hyphens. Hyphens can help break up long numbers in a spreadsheet, ...

To begin, you need to enable the Developer tab in Excel. This tab provides access to the tools required for form creation, but it is not enabled by default. To enable ...

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