Moving and counting rows or columns Navigation Excel has some clever keyboard shortcuts to let you move to the extremes of your worksheet. ‘Extremes’ doesn’t mean the absolute end of the worksheet, rather the end of the current block of filled or unfilled cells. Hold down the Ctrl key and press the right-arrow key – […]
Office 2010 will have a 64-bit version but don’t get too excited. Office 2010 comes with 64-bit software as well as the usual 32-bit software. First a little background for those of us who think that 64-bit is a new type of chocolate cookie “64 bits in every bite!” Microsoft Office, like the computers that […]
We bring together earlier articles to create a quick and simple Excel data analysis. by David Goodmanson In the final article of this series we will bring together what we have learnt in earlier articles to create a data analysis. We started with Average / Mean options in Excel then Median and Mode functions in […]
Excel 2007 and 2010 have a quick way to see basic stats on a list of numbers. If you only need some basic details about a list of numbers, there’s no need to use Excel formulas or the Descriptive Statistics feature. In Excel 2003 you can select two or more cells to see a total […]
March 2010 is the month for many Excel security patches This month Microsoft has released patches for many security breaches in Excel – from Excel 2002 onwards plus Office for Mac. More embarrassing, but probably inevitable, the ‘new’ OpenXML document formats have been breached for the first time. A hacked .xlsx file could gain access […]