Life is hectic, and juggling dozens of apps for the "must-do" chores adds to the noise. Since I already work in Excel daily, I've expanded its use to automate three of my most boring tasks. These ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to change text direction in Excel from vertical to horizontal. “Vertical text” in Excel can mean different things depending on how your sheet is set up. Sometimes your ...

Wouldn’t it be great if you could be an Excel wizard without putting in all the time and effort needed to learn how to get around Excel and make it do what you want it to do? Formulas are one of the ...

OneNote is a powerful note-taking app, but that doesn't necessarily mean it has all the features you want. One of the missing features is 'Paste as text only,' and it's finally coming to OneNote. In a ...

Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Have you ever opened a spreadsheet and felt overwhelmed by a sea of unformatted numbers, struggling to make sense of the data? Whether it’s a financial report, survey results, or a project timeline, ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

In iOS 18, Apple has added several new features to its Messages app, one being the ability to add neat text effects to your messages to make them more expressive. The new animated text effects can be ...

Apple has introduced new text formatting options in the Messages app with iOS 18, giving you more ways to express yourself in conversations. The latest update allows you to add emphasis to your text ...

Microsoft Excel may be a productivity app that emphasizes numbers, but it has useful tools for text as well. For instance, that handy spreadsheet app will let you wrap text. And getting it done is a ...