Excel comes loaded with lots of tools to help you work smarter and easier. Today we’ll look at three tools — Reports, Views and Outlining — that can make a big impact on your day-to-day work in Excel.

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Freeze results, hide sensitive logic, and boost performance by converting dynamic formulas into static values.

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

Microsoft has recently rolled out a new update introducing the keytips feature to the Mac version of Excel, significantly enhancing the number of available keyboard shortcuts. This feature, long ...

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 ...

Dropdowns are useful features that simplify data entry and enforce data validations in spreadsheet software. Creating a dropdown list is easy. And you might have done that already in Excel. But did ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...