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Microsoft Excel queries retrieve information from tables of data. For example, your business may store staff sales figures in an Access database. To chart the performance of your most productive staff ...

Structured references use table columns instead of cell coordinates, making formulas easier to read, update, and trust.

You can freeze columns in Excel with a few clicks, and then unfreeze them when you no longer need to view them statically. Freezing a column in Excel makes that pane visible while you scroll to other ...

There are two situations in which you might need to merge two columns of data in Excel 2013. If you've imported two columns of data from separate sources, you might want to combine them into a single ...

Microsoft Excel is a useful tool for managing data sets large and small. But it can quickly turn frustrating if you're unsure how to get the desired outcome to sort your spreadsheet with so many menu ...

Have you ever struggled to make sense of a dataset with too many categories or time-based data? It’s a common challenge—how do you present individual contributions while still showing the bigger ...

To sum a Column in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, you can use the AutoSum, the Status Bar, and even the Sum function to calculate values in one or more columns as explained below. One of the quickest ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link You can easily hide columns when working within an Excel spreadsheet — and just as easily unhide them. Excel is great for sorting large amounts of ...

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...