You’d think stock traders, of all people, would have the best data available. But that wasn’t the case when JPMorgan started bleeding billions on bad trades. Investors got worried. The bank dismissed ...

I'm having an issue with a project I'm currently working on. The project uses a series of data tables, and a linked excel spreadsheet as a structural data file (contains the details of a frequently ...

Q. Help! My future value calculations don’t make any sense (see the spreadsheet below). The formula in column D is the same for all rows, but for unknown reasons, it stops working after row 7. What’s ...

There are several possible reasons for an Excel worksheet to say it is Read Only. If you are able to make changes but not save them, a quick workaround is to select "Save As." This option lets you ...

Ever found yourself locked out of an Excel spreadsheet because you forgot the password or you have been given password protected Excel files from a colleague who was left the business? It’s a common ...

Spreadsheets are absolute. You enter some variables, and a spreadsheet outputs an absolute number, according to whatever logic has been programmed into it. But here’s the problem: While spreadsheets ...

Data is everywhere, but how should you organize it, visualize it, and utilize it to solve problems and make data-driven decisions? This hands-on workshop will show you how to use Microsoft® Excel for ...

An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

If you use simple copy and paste methods to duplicate an Excel drop-down list, you may discover a problem; when you copy a cell that has a drop-down list and press "Ctrl-V" to paste it into a new cell ...

Few things frustrate us more than the inability to crack an Excel task independently. We love formulas and conditional cells, but the best way to utilize these features isn’t always easy. Tap or click ...