Microsoft Office is designed so you can import data from one Office program to another seamlessly. For example, you can import Word document data and even whole Word documents in their entirety into ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Data entry is a painful chore. If only there was a way to automate the process of taking data from one location and adding it to ...

SQLite, a lightweight database suitable for managing small data systems, might power some of your business' applications and websites. If it does, you might wish to share SQLite's data with your Excel ...

Spreadsheets contain many tools for analyzing and manipulating data. The trouble is much of the data CPAs need to analyze resides in company databases or on the Internet. So, after finding the ...

Microsoft recently rolled out a number of major updates to its products, including a particularly handy new feature for Excel. Using the Android version of the app, users will be able to snap a photo ...

Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned Get Data dialog in Excel for Windows, offering faster search, cleaner navigation, and a ...

Microsoft releases a major update to the Excel for Windows interface, including a totally modernised "Get Data" dialogue that ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.