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 ...

If you type a sentence in Excel, most of us just format the sentence using the features in the Font, Alignment, or Number groups, which include additional features such as colors, borders, orientation ...

There's a fine line between a well-formatted Microsoft Excel worksheet and one that's full of issues that take time to fix. Whether you're an Excel newbie or a seasoned pro, avoiding these formatting ...

Susan Harkins shows you how to format and unlock input cells in Excel at the same time by assigning a modified style. It’s common to highlight input cells so users know which values to change, and ...

Whether you’re tracking sales, managing budgets, or analyzing trends, the challenge of pulling out meaningful insights from an Excel spreadsheet can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. But ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When you enter a date that's formatted with slashes, Excel will recognize it as a date. For example, Excel will automatically choose the date ...

Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an earlier article that used conditional formatting to highlight weekends. By ...

Are all or some menu options greyed out in Excel for you? Some Office users have reported that certain or many menus are grayed out in their Excel sheets. Whenever they try to click on such menus, the ...