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Transform your spreadsheets and save valuable time by automatically mapping headers to data for readable formulas.

Assigning names to cells in Microsoft Excel simplifies referencing the cell or cell range. As an example, instead of referencing "=Sheet1!$D$1:$K$23," you can define ...

Q. I’ve been trying to give descriptive names to spreadsheet cells—rather than use cell-location codes (A1, B2 and so forth)—and while sometimes it works, other ...

You might be familiar with bookmarks in Microsoft Word, which are invisible way-points in specified locations of a document that you can jump to whenever you need to. Microsoft Excel's alternative to ...

Many of us use Microsoft Excel to calculate budgets or perform basic additions and subtractions. We also know that it supports Macros which helps us automate our tasks. An Excel sheet is no stranger ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...