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Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program. The ...

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

Did you know that you can export an Access database to an Excel worksheet? In Microsoft Excel, there are features to import or export data from or to an Excel worksheet. When exporting data to Excel, ...

If your business relies on advanced statistical analysis, you may have paired your copy of Microsoft Excel with a program dedicated to providing analytical tools. Minitab, created by the company of ...