Excel grays out menu commands for unavailable features or functions. To unlock the grayed-out menus, first review the most common causes, then take the steps necessary make the menu active. By default ...

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

When most users open Office 2007’s Excel—launched with Microsoft’s new Vista operating system—their first reaction is, “ Where’s the file menu? How do I begin?” This article is designed to help you ...

One typical application for Excel is to find information in a list of data. The simplest way to do this is filtering the data so that Excel does the work of finding the pertinent information for you ...

Earlier this week Microsoft gave us a video preview of the coming Office 2007 interface. Today, the company brings us yet another Office 2007 video, this time covering several of the new features ...

The Chart Wizard of earlier versions may be gone in Excel 2007, but creating charts is still as easy as ever. Beyond building basic charts there are various techniques you can use to make your charts ...

As we mentioned last month, Microsoft Excel 2007 was plagued by a fairly serious math flaw that could affect spreadsheet data. Today, the Excel team at Microsoft has released a patch which addresses ...

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Microsoft has issued a fix for the calculation bug that was discovered in Excel 2007: Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today ...

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Have you ever wondered if Microsoft Excel was invented by a sadist? Trying to edit multiple files at one time becomes a game of “Find the worksheet.” You know that the feature you need is on one of ...

Susan Harkins shows you how to combine a function and conditional formatting to highlight weekends and holidays using Excel. Weekends and holidays are important to most of us. Besides enjoying the ...