An curved arrow pointing right. Data validation in Excel allows you to create drop-down menus right inside individual cells. You can also restrict the types of values entered into different cells.

Most Excel users spend their time navigating ribbons, building formulas, and formatting cells, all while completely ignoring ...

Microsoft Excel is an incredibly capable and complex spreadsheet program. If you’re just getting your feet wet, these tips will help you get started on making a spreadsheet and writing a formula. Once ...

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You know the routine: you click the little arrow on the column header, the massive dropdown menu appears, and suddenly you are looking at a long list of items, trying to figure out if you have already ...

The new look for Google Spreadsheets is now live. As the Docs team announced, there's a completely new interface. And it's looking a lot more like its desktop step-brother, Excel. Most notably, ...

If you use Microsoft Excel on your Mac, you can save the spreadsheets you create and open them in Numbers, Apple’s spreadsheet app. It’s a handy feature to use in case you can’t access Microsoft’s ...