Have you ever found yourself staring at an Excel spreadsheet, frustrated by a formula error you can’t untangle or a formatting glitch that refuses to cooperate? You ...

Q. I have an Excel spreadsheet where I need to enter the ticker symbol ACN for Accenture. Excel keeps changing ACN to CAN. What can I do? A. Most of us are familiar with how helpful autocorrect can be ...

Q. When I paste a large amount of data into Excel containing dates as far back as the 1800s, the recent dates display correctly as valid dates, but the older dates automatically convert to text. I ...

Hello all. I have a puzzling problem. I have a spreadsheet that has in one column a list of paths to .xls files, among other file types. I need a macro that will open each of these files, get the page ...

Spreadsheets are absolute. You enter some variables, and a spreadsheet outputs an absolute number, according to whatever logic has been programmed into it. But here’s the problem: While spreadsheets ...

An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).