Excel grays out menu commands for unavailable features or functions. To unlock the grayed-out menus, first review the most common causes, then take the steps necessary make the menu active. By default ...

Do you like menus? Menus tend to be overlooked in the desire to show every possible option at once in a toolbar or palette, but the nice thing about a menu is that its there when you need it and out ...

I've spent years watching people move data in Microsoft Excel by cutting, inserting blank rows, pasting, and then deleting the old empty space. Most people don't realize there's a right-click-drag ...

Excel at using Excel with these keyboard hotkeys that will save you minutes of time—and hours of aggravation. You may not realize it, but clicking around an Excel spreadsheet with your mouse is ...

Transform your Excel workflow by using essential keystrokes to format, filter, paste, create tables, and instantly repeat ...

Microsoft Windows may get all the press coverage, but when you want to get real work done, you turn your attention to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means ...

Advanced computer users know that once they’ve mastered keyboard commands, they usually can navigate menus faster with the keyboard than with a mouse. For example, you probably learned long ago that ...

Typing entire expressions from the keyboard is tedious. Instead, use these 9 shortcuts to enter and work with expressions more efficiently. Most of us spend a lot of time entering expressions–they’re ...

Learn Microsoft Excel on iPad with iPadOS 26 menu bar shortcuts and widgets, so you work faster with touch and keyboard ...