Sparklines in Microsoft Excel are charts—tiny little charts that display inline with the data because they fit into a cell, usually adjacent to the data they’re evaluating. With a quick glance, not ...

Converting large paper-based data into a spreadsheet is arguably the most mundane of tasks. In an era where AI can make Donald Trump sing a Taylor Swift song with perfect vocals, the manual drudgery ...

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

The automatic conversion function of Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet software, automatically converts some inputs, such as numbers and dates, into specific types of data. Although this feature is ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers. After ...