The tilde isn't the only sign you need to understand to truly get your head around Excel's inner workings. For example, the ...

The text trap: If you select numbers and the status bar stays blank (or only shows the Count), your numbers are formatted as text—and Excel can't sum words! This tells you that you should click the ...

If your business uses spreadsheets, you may find it necessary to count the number of cells containing data in a worksheet. You might also need to determine how many cells are empty or if the values of ...

Have you ever found yourself sifting through endless rows of data, trying to confirm whether a specific item exists? It’s a tedious, error-prone process that can derail even the most organized ...

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 ...

In the Getting started directory, you’ll find a step-by-step tutorial to build your own Word Cloud app. Training version: Practice assembling the Python code yourself. Wordcloud - complete: The fully ...

Windows may get all the attention, but when you want to get real work done, you turn to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, ...

This example demonstrates how to use the Excel Export library to generate a simple spreadsheet document in code. After running this example, a console application creates an XLSX file and opens it in ...