Helen Bradley demonstrates Excel formatting tricks that will help you when things don't work as planned. Learn her methods now.

In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

To clear formatting from the selected cells in your workbook in Microsoft Excel, you can use Clear Formats, Keyboard shortcuts, Format Painter tool, etc.

In Excel, you can apply direct formatting to cells' values or backgrounds to make the spreadsheet easier to read. However, when an Excel formula returns a set of values—known as a spilled array ...

There are several ways to make data stand out visually in an Excel spreadsheet, but one of the simplest and most effective is to apply conditional formatting. What is conditional formatting in Excel?

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells ...

Learn how to create a calendar in Microsoft Excel with data using a pre-designed template, Visual Basic code, or a manual method.

Graphs in Excel help break down your data into an easily digestible format. Here’s how to make a graph in Microsoft Excel.

Open the Excel 2010 file that you want to make format changes to. Select the top-left cell in the range of cells that you want to change to the accounting format.

One of Excel’s greatest tricks is the dimensional or 3D reference. This feature, which allows you to create formulas that refer to the same cell or range on multiple worksheets, simplifies the ...

If your subtotaling rows are lost in a sea of worksheet data, use this simple conditional formatting technique to make those rows easy to spot.

A. It is possible to create a watermark in Microsoft Excel; however, Excel does not have the same built-in watermark capabilities as Microsoft Word. A watermark in Excel is a faint image or text that ...