If you record daily sales data in Excel, it may be impossible to explain variances from day to day. Instead, it may make more sense to summarize the data by week to spot trends and explain variations.

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number. This can be hard-coded inside double quotes or a reference to a cell ...

One of the prime attractions of Microsoft Office Suite is the ability to transfer and convert data for use in each of the different programs that comprise the overall package. Small business users who ...

Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

How to use Excel’s Data Model to turn related data into meaningful information Your email has been sent Excel's Data Model feature allows you to build relationships between data sets for easier ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is adding a very useful feature to its Excel mobile apps for ...