With Microsoft's introduction of Excel 2007, users had to abandon their previous habits and relearn Excel's menu structure. The familiar menu bar vanished in lieu of the "ribbon," which categorizes ...

Freeze Panes in Excel solves this problem completely. It locks specific rows and columns in place so they remain visible no matter where you scroll. To set it up, go to the View t ...

Many people would claim that Excel's desktop app is far more useful than its web-based counterpart, and they would be right: it has more tools, is much more powerful, and works well without an ...

One of the things I don’t like about Excel 2008 is that setting zoom levels is a bit more complex than it need be. If you use Excel’s View -> Zoom menu, this opens a new window, from which you then ...

Microsoft’s updated spreadsheet tool isn’t getting a lot of new, whiz-bang features, but it is becoming more functional. That’s something both new and experienced users will enjoy—especially a new ...

In MS Office XP I have pasted and linked an Excel object into a MS Word document. I have tried everything but to no avail to get rid of the unwanted gridlines surrounding the linked objects. I've ...