Spreadsheets provide important tools to business managers and owners. They can be used for inventory purposes or for calculating prices and other types of record-keeping. Spreadsheets have a number of ...

Open a blank spreadsheet in Excel. Label cell A1 "Daily Sales." Label cell B1 "Last 2 Days." Label cell C1 "Running Total," and then set column width to 15 for these three columns. Change the color of ...

Q: My partner says there’s an F4 shortcut to creating absolute cell references in Excel formulas, but for the life of me I can’t make it work. What am I doing wrong? A: Your partner is right, but ...

Locking a cell in an Excel formula means keeping a specific cell reference fixed, even when you copy or drag the formula to other cells. This is done using absolute referencing. It helps maintain ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...