The Alt+Enter shortcut isn't limited to new formulas you write—you can go back and clean up any messy formulas at any time.

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Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...

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Chinese researchers have developed an extremely energy efficient and low-cost technology for extracting uranium from seawater, a potential boon to the country’s nuclear power ambitions. China ...

UNLIKE Hudibras, who could, as we are told, “extract numbers out of matter,” Mr. Hopkins proposes in the essay before us to extract matter from numbers, or, as he says in the preface, “to show that ...

Everyone on the planet has heard of Microsoft Excel. It’s the world’s analytical infrastructure. Estimates are that 1,500,000,000 people use Excel. Users love it at least twice a day and typically ...