Inserting a pivot table in a sheet in Excel 2013. Image: Screenshot by Susan Harkins/TechRepublic When is the last time you opened Microsoft Excel to do some data science? If it's been a while, you're ...

If you are still manually performing repetitive tasks in Excel, you are wasting precious hours. Excel macros offer a solution ...

When you think of Excel, you think spreadsheets — and let’s face it, that’s not a word that excites anyone. That’s a shame, though. Because these days, Microsoft Excel helps many Fortune 500 CFOs ...

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 ...

With August coming to a close and the summer slowdown reaching its final nadir, it’s hard to focus on deal making right now. You find your mind drifting to the long weekend — nice weather, barbecues, ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

Mastering Excel takes some experience and patience, but it’s easy to make mistakes even if you’ve been using it for a long time. Sometimes, choices seem like a brilliant idea–until they’re not, and ...

When it comes to Excel, there isn’t much middle ground. You have people who absolutely love it and will sing the praises of spreadsheets all day. And, then you have the people who absolutely detest it ...

Admit it, when you hear Microsoft Excel, you immediately think of calculations, formulas, graphs and tables – things usually used for organizing and analysis of data making charts, and other related ...