Have you ever opened an Excel spreadsheet and felt instantly overwhelmed by cluttered data, mismatched fonts, or confusing layouts? It’s a common frustration, yet so many of us accept it as the norm.

Unless you were a math whiz in college, you probably have no great love for Excel. Manipulating Excel formulas can be challenging, but the payoff (like elegantly formatted tables that identify ...

Excel's text formatting capabilities can make the results of your financial, statistical or scientific spreadsheet calculations more esthetically pleasing and easier to follow. You can use one of ...

This week's tutorial covers a number functions in Google's Spreadsheet app, Google Sheets. Here we take a practical look at using weekdays in calculations, introduce "if" statements and learn how to ...

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

While INFO tells you about your Excel environment, CELL digs into individual cells and returns details about their formatting ...

Quip, a startup with mobile apps for crafting and collaborating on documents, has turned on some useful capabilities when it comes to working with spreadsheets. Now you can click a couple of buttons ...

It's easy to change the date format in Microsoft Excel. You just need to use the "Date" drop-down menu, which gives you ...

You can change the date format in Google Sheets and customize the appearance of calendar dates in a spreadsheet.