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Microsoft Excel queries retrieve information from tables of data. For example, your business may store staff sales figures in an Access database. To chart the performance of your most productive staff ...

Columns organize data in Excel, and are often used as categories with headers to sort cells. You can simply right-click on an existing column to add another column immediately before it. To add ...

The ability to move columns in Excel is a great benefit when dealing with long strands of data in Excel. You can easily move a column into another column, regardless of whether or not the other column ...

Sometimes hiding certain columns in an Excel spreadsheet can be helpful: Doing so can make spreadsheets easier to read or you may have other reasons to hide them. In any case, hiding columns in ...

Microsoft Excel 2013's Home tab includes options in the Cells group to insert a blank sheet column and to delete unwanted sheet columns. The row of alphabetical column headings stay in the same ...

Comparing two columns in Excel doesn’t have to be a difficult task, and to get the job done, we suggest using VLOOKUP. You see, not always; the columns you want to compare are in the same workbook or ...

Have you ever struggled to make sense of a dataset with too many categories or time-based data? It’s a common challenge—how do you present individual contributions while still showing the bigger ...

Sometimes we have spreadsheets overrun with data and it can be quite cumbersome where Microsoft Excel is concerned. Not everyone wants to see the data all at the same time, so the best option to take ...