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The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

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Q. I’ve been trying to give descriptive names to spreadsheet cells—rather than use cell-location codes (A1, B2 and so forth)—and while sometimes it works, other ...

You might be familiar with bookmarks in Microsoft Word, which are invisible way-points in specified locations of a document that you can jump to whenever you need to. Microsoft Excel's alternative to ...

Learning to use Excel worksheets like relational databases can help you save time, eliminating duplication when managing large projects. A relational database is useful because information resides in ...

Text in a cell in Excel is called a text string. Excel provides a number of built-in functions enabling you to select and manipulate text strings in cells. The easiest way to identify or extract a ...

Microsoft Excel is an incredibly powerful application that can tackle everything from simple tables to complex financial spreadsheets, and you can even password-protect an Excel file to keep your data ...