Excel sheets read data in cells using cell references, which are the addresses that identify each cell. Visual Basic macros also read data using cell references, extracting data by reading the cell's ...

I've been treating Excel like a glorified calculator for most of my life. Sure, formulas made doing more complex calculations easier and automatically updated data, and there are free Excel templates ...

Annoyingly, many of the tools I use most in Excel aren't available as single-step commands in the ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar (QAT). That's why I built a personalized command layer that works in ...

Excel's Save As command lets you save a single worksheet in the CSV (comma seperated value) format, but not an entire workbook. Saving individual sheets by hand is a tedious project for large ...

Excel is a useful program for creating tables, graphs and making complicated calculations automatically. It might seem complicated at the beginning, but when you get to know Excel's features, the ...

When you digitally sign an Excel macro, you add a unique, encrypted signature to your VBA project. This signature works like a tamper-evident seal on a medicine bottle; it shows that no one has ...

For years, Excel 2008 has been teasing me: Every time I launched the app, I’d see that menu item, mocking me, tempting me to click. “Go ahead,” it would whisper, “You know you want to. This time it’ll ...

Macros are the timesaving magic trick for Office applications because they automate repetitive tasks that gobble time. This week’s feature, which spotlights Excel, is one of several articles featuring ...

One of the handiest things you can do with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Office 2011 is to share data between two different Office apps. For example, let’s say you want to embed data from ...