How to Control Data Conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac Your email has been sent After years of struggling with Microsoft Excel's internal conversion feature, users can now disable Excel's ...

If you record daily sales data in Excel, it may be impossible to explain variances from day to day. Instead, it may make more sense to summarize the data by week to spot trends and explain variations.

Q. I usually like Excel PivotTables, but because they don’t allow me to do certain things, such as delete cells or insert new columns or rows, I’m wondering if there is a reasonable alternative? A.

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...