Have you ever struggled to sort data in Excel in a way that truly fits your needs? Imagine trying to organize a list of regions not alphabetically, but in a specific order like “North, South, East, ...

Data validation in Excel lets you restrict what can be entered into a cell, whether whole numbers, decimals, dates, or a certain number of characters. However, one of the most powerful capabilities of ...

Stop hunting through tabs—build a portable custom ribbon containing your favorite commands and Excel's most useful secret ...

Microsoft Excel allows us to create Custom Excel Functions or User Defined Functions using VBA. We can create Custom Excel Functions with the functionality we want and they can be accessed in the ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.

Microsoft is launching a couple of features to Excel today that make the ubiquitous spreadsheet software a bit more powerful. Among the new features is support for Azure Machine Learning and custom ...

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Office Scripts extract Excel hyperlink URLs without macros; results are hardcoded so the file can stay .xlsx, reuse is straightforward.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers. After ...