Excel, a spreadsheet software developed by Microsoft, is used by companies and governments around the world that handle large amounts of data. Sometimes the mistakes contained in an Excel sheet can ...

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 ...

By default, when you select a formula or source field in a dialog box, Enter mode is activated. You can see this in the ...

Q. Help! My future value calculations don’t make any sense (see the spreadsheet below). The formula in column D is the same for all rows, but for unknown reasons, it stops working after row 7. What’s ...

Microsoft Corp. yesterday confirmed that Excel 2007, the newest version of its market-leading spreadsheet, returns incorrect calculation results in some cases. The math bug first surfaced Saturday on ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Microsoft Excel could be to blame for errors in genomics ...

Microsoft Excel could be to blame for errors in genomics research. In a paper published last week in the Genome Biology journal, researchers Mark Ziemann, Yotam Eren, and Assal El-Osta reveal that an ...