Excel

Excel templates can save you time designing, setting up and standardising forms and reports. There are hundreds of free templates covering many types of documents and themes available for all Excel users. Excel templates work in the Excel desktop app and Excel Online. Watch the Video Free Excel Templates You’ll find free Excel templates via …

In most cases you can easily remove Excel password protection if you’ve forgotten the password. However, the likelihood of your success depends on which password protection method was used, as some of the four options below are more robust than others. Excel password protection is available for: Sheets Workbooks File Open File Edit Each method …

New to Windows is the ability to import data from a picture to Excel*. No more typing data manually into spreadsheets. It works with image files or screen captures on your clipboard. It's available on the Data tab of the Ribbon > From Picture, as shown below: *Import data from a picture requires a Microsoft …

Microsoft are massively investing in Excel Online and as a result there are some features that are now better than they are in the desktop version of Excel. The great news is that anyone can use Excel Online for free. You don’t need an Excel license or 365 membership! Watch the Video Download Workbook Enter …

I’ve received a lot of Excel files from our members over the years and I see the same mistakes time and again. In this post I’m going to list the 10 things you should never do in Excel and what to do instead to avoid trouble when working in Excel. Watch the Video Download Workbook …

In this tutorial I’m going to highlight some cool new Excel features that might have slipped under your radar, a couple of which we’ve wanted forever. These are available to Microsoft 365 users, and some are so new that they’re only available to Office Insiders users on the Beta Channel. If ever there was a …

Before we had the luxury of dynamic array functions, creating dependent data validation lists typically required using multiple tables and named ranges, as shown here. Setting them up was laborious, however now that we have dynamic array functions, creating dynamic dependent data validation lists is much easier. Note: this technique requires a Microsoft 365 license …

The Excel Quick Access Toolbar or QAT as it’s also known is not only a handy place for commonly used icons, but it also enables some super easy keyboard shortcuts for your favourite tools. The QAT sits either above or below the ribbon. I prefer to place it above the ribbon as this takes up …

We’ve been able to share and collaborate in Excel files simultaneously with our co-workers for quite some time. However, recently there have been some significant improvements to the Excel co-authoring experience that will blow you away. All you need to co-author in Excel is a Microsoft 365 subscription and an internet connection. You can even …

When you spend days crafting your latest report, the last thing you need are well meaning users messing with your file. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to use Excel workbook protection which will allow your users to experience the report as you intended. They can: Click Slicer buttons Refresh data connections …