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Q. I’ve been trying to give descriptive names to spreadsheet cells—rather than use cell-location codes (A1, B2 and so forth)—and while sometimes it works, other ...

You might be familiar with bookmarks in Microsoft Word, which are invisible way-points in specified locations of a document that you can jump to whenever you need to. Microsoft Excel's alternative to ...

Irene Galente asked if she can combine the name data in a number of Excel columns into a single cell. In Irene’s spreadsheet the first column displays each person’s “title” (such as Mr., Mrs., Dr., ...

The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...

Combining or merging the first and last names in an Excel spreadsheet or workbook requires using the CONCAT and Ampersand functions or formulas. You can also use ...

How to take advantage of the Name box in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Scrolling around a large sheet can be tedious, awkward, and occasionally, even fruitless because you simply can’t find ...

Learning to use Excel worksheets like relational databases can help you save time, eliminating duplication when managing large projects. A relational database is useful because information resides in ...