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 ...

When I started using Microsoft Excel, my spreadsheets were a mess, and I wasted hours trying to make them look professional.

"Who doesn't want to be the spreadsheet champion?" That is what the co-founders of the UK Microsoft Excel chapter said when explaining how the everyday computer program Microsoft Excel became a ...