Excel isn’t just about SUM and AVERAGE — it’s packed with hidden gems that can make your data analysis faster, smarter, and more visual. From Goal Seek for planning to the Camera tool for dynamic ...

Excel dashboards have become an indispensable tool for professionals seeking to make data-driven decisions by consolidating key metrics and trends into a single, interactive, and visually appealing ...

Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

Enhancements in the .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 make Office automation solutions easier than ever to write and deploy. Here's an Excel automation scenario that reflects solutions that I've ...

Common Excel visuals like pies, 3D charts, and dual axes often mislead more than they clarify data.

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a ...

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...

Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, is a Microsoft programming language that allows users to create scripts to execute certain actions, automate repetitive functions, and create custom forms and ...