Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Cells in Excel are referred to using relative or absolute references. A formula with relative references changes when the cell's position does. If, for example, a cell has a formula "=A1" and you copy ...

"A Guide to Microsoft Excel 2007 for Scientists and Engineers," by Dr. Bernard V. Liengme provides a practical and straightforward guide to using functions of Microsoft Excel to their full potential.

If you’re a full-time spreadsheet jockey, or just a casual number-cruncher, you’ve come to know and either love or hate Excel’s interface. Well, your world just changed. Throw away almost everything ...

People use the multipurpose Microsoft Excel for everything from logging scientific spreadsheets rife with calculations and charts, to tracking quarterly sales of widgets, to cataloging the books in ...

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Although most users still struggle with the new ribbon interface, many say Excel 2007's new features make it a worthwhile upgrade. Like the rest of the Office 2007 suite, Excel 2007 sports the new ...