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• Excel Geek Express—otherwise known as Quick Analysis

  18 Apr 2013

  Guest blogger Emily Warn is co-owner of Two Pens , which provides blogging services and teaches business how to write content that grows a social media following. My writer friends think I'm a geek. You can do what?! I can create a spreadsheet with book sales numbers that can be sorted by name and number...
• Format and customize Excel 2013 charts quickly with the new Formatting Task pane

  27 Mar 2013

  The new Excel offers a rich set of charting capabilities that make creating and customizing charts simpler and more intuitive. One part of the fluid new experience is the Formatting Task pane. Until now, precise adjustments to chart elements were made in the Format dialog box. The box sometimes obscured...
• Yes, it is possible to create nice looking spreadsheets

  19 Jan 2012

  For the last couple years I’ve been meaning to pull together some of the tips that I’ve learned working on the Excel team about how to make nice looking spreadsheets. Well, last week, Rob Collie (a previous Excel Program Manager, and now CTO at Pivotstream and author of PowerPivotPro.com...
• Making sense of dollar signs in Excel

  17 Aug 2011

  We've noticed some of you searching for help using "$" – a dollar sign. In Excel, a dollar sign can denote a currency format, but it has another common use: indicating absolute cell references in formulas. Let's consider both uses of the dollar sign in Excel. Dollar signs denoting currency If you...