Q. I enjoy learning about ways to increase my efficiency and save time in Microsoft Excel. Do you have any other tips to share? A. Flash Fill is one of my favorite features in Excel because it can do ...

I used to hate cleaning data in an Excel sheet because it was tedious and repetitive. It often took longer than expected, not because the work itself was difficult, but because I needed time to build ...

Source data won’t always come in the form you need in Excel. When that happens, consider using Flash Fill to save time and aggravation. Flash Fill showed up in Microsoft Excel 2013, so you’re probably ...

Let’s say you have student information in a worksheet where students’ last names, first names, and ID numbers are in Column A. If you want their first name and last name to appear in Column B, you ...

You might know how to use Microsoft Flash Fill to create new content, but you might not know that you can use this feature to parse characters across several rows ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We all know and love the Auto Fill feature in Excel. Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in your ...

Microsoft’s updated spreadsheet tool isn’t getting a lot of new, whiz-bang features, but it is becoming more functional. That’s something both new and experienced users will enjoy—especially a new ...

There are two kinds of Microsoft Excel users in the world: Those who make neat little tables, and those who amaze their colleagues with sophisticated charts, data analysis, and seemingly magical ...