I use custom views, the selection pane, clean UI toggles, and other tools to present my workbook professionally.

Excel's Custom Views tool lets you create a snapshot of your spreadsheet, allowing you to toggle between layouts.

With Microsoft's introduction of Excel 2007, users had to abandon their previous habits and relearn Excel's menu structure. The familiar menu bar vanished in lieu of the "ribbon," which categorizes ...

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 ...

Hide everything but the working area in an Excel worksheet Your email has been sent If you’ve ever opened a Microsoft Excel workbook to find no columns, rows and/or scrollbars, this is probably why: ...

Q. I work with large spreadsheets. These spreadsheets have hundreds or even thousands of rows and often 10 or more columns. It’s so much to process that I become confused and make mistakes. Does Excel ...

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.

Microsoft’s updated spreadsheet tool isn’t getting a lot of new, whiz-bang features, but it is becoming more functional. That’s something both new and experienced users will enjoy—especially a new ...