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 ...

From simple lists to dynamic spill ranges and cascading menus, Excel drop-downs offer flexible control over data entry.

Microsoft Excel is an incredibly capable and complex spreadsheet program. If you’re just getting your feet wet, these tips will help you get started on making a spreadsheet and writing a formula. Once ...

VBA may have a bad reputation, but it's still one of the most effective ways to automate repetitive actions in standard XLSX ...

Excel spreadsheets do so much, from making lists to crunching numbers to acting as sophisticated flat-file databases. We’re creating this guide to make sure you master all the essentials and more.

People who use the web editions of Microsoft's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint productivity apps will soon see some file menu improvements including changes to renaming files and more. Earlier this week, ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...