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PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking	Insert Alternate Blank Rows in Excel I have an Excel report that fills about 1,000 rows. I want to insert a blank row between each of these rows. Obviously, I know how to insert a row one at a time, but is there a quicker way to do this?
PC Magazine May 4, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking	Sorting Text in Excel Reordering words is more complicated than numbers. Here's a procedure that works.
PC Magazine April 6, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking	Fix Excel 2003's RAND Function In December, PC Magazine reader and Excel maven Earl Takasaki brought a curious Excel bug to our attention: The RAND function in Excel 2003 may return negative numbers.
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking	Fixing an Excel Formula I have created several Excel 2000 worksheets that use the VLOOKUP formula to get information from one central worksheet. Now I need to add columns to the root worksheet.
CFO April 15, 2012 Bill Jelen	A Global Shift (of Decimals) How to move the decimal point in an array of Excel data.
PC Magazine September 21, 2004	A Subtle Bug in Excel Pivot Tables A reader discovers an unusual Excel 2003 flaw, and we have a demonstration.
PC Magazine March 6, 2007	Analyze Multiple Worksheets in Excel Combine long lists of items from about a dozen different workbooks into one Excel worksheet, without duplicating entries.
PC Magazine May 18, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking	Convert Blank Cells to Zeros in Excel In Excel, is there any way to select a range of cells and tell Excel to fill the blank cells with the value zero?
PC Magazine March 16, 2005 Helen Bradley	Conditional Formatting in Excel Make the information in your spreadsheets more accessible with formatting based on certain conditions.
PC Magazine October 14, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking	Absolute and Relative References in Excel Avoid error messages in your formulas by using the $ character to indicate cell references that should never change.
PC Magazine August 3, 2004	Counting Unique Names in Excel, Reloaded How to count unique names in excel using pivot tables.
PC Magazine September 4, 2007 Neil Rubenking	Sort on More Than Three Columns The how and why to sort data with more than three columns in Excel.
PC Magazine August 23, 2005 Ben Z. Gottesman	Finding Hidden Columns in Excel I somehow lost several of the leftmost columns in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and have been unable to make them visible again. How can I get these lost columns back?
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Helen Bradley	15 Great Excel Tips Microsoft Excel is jam-packed with functions that perform a range of handy calculations and tests. We take a look at 15 Excel functions you may not know about and show you some clever ways to put them to work on your data.
PC Magazine September 2, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking	Sort Thousands of Rows Individually You can run a sort operation on each row of an Excel worksheet using a handy function.
PC Magazine April 6, 2004 Helen Bradley	Better Lists in Excel Excel 2003 offers some useful new tools for working with lists.
PC Magazine January 10, 2007	Copy Only Subtotals in Excel A way to copy just the results of a subtotal display to other cells in an Excel spreadsheet.
PC Magazine August 1, 2007 Neil Rubenking	Excel Formulas That Read Your Mind Understanding #REF! error markers in Excel formulas.
PC Magazine November 25, 2003	Joining Columns that Include Dates Our Excel merge tip works with any two columns of data, but the formula changes a bit when you're working with dates.
PC Magazine June 21, 2006	Deleting Duplicate Rows In Excel In Excel, how do I delete rows that are duplicates -- that is, rows that match in multiple columns like Last Name, First Name, House Number, and Street Name?
PC Magazine December 30, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking	The Ultimate Sum Formula in Excel Here's how to set up a formula that will automatically adapt and sum all the cells above it, wherever it is placed.
PC Magazine December 9, 2003 Brickley & Cutting	Automate Long Fills In Excel It's easy to create a macro that takes the hassle out of filling large ranges in Excel.
PC Magazine July 1, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking	Filtering with Excel's PivotTable Is there a way to count the number of occurrences of each name in an Excel column?
PC Magazine August 3, 2004	Convert a Tabular Word Document to Excel Is it possible to convert a Word document to an Excel spreadsheet when the Word document has columns of numbers?
PC Magazine October 10, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking	"Copy Only Subtotals in Excel" Revisited Multiple solutions to the same problem.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2010 Nathan Alderman	Beat Back the Budget Beast! This handy spreadsheet can help you keep your money in line.
PC Magazine July 2, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking	Eight Handy Tools in Excel You Probably Don't Know About These simple features in Excel will smarten up your spreadsheets in no time.
PC Magazine September 4, 2007 Neil Rubenking	How to Sort by Birthday in Excel How to sort through dates while avoiding leap years.
PC Magazine August 30, 2006	Problem Merging Zip Codes That Start with 0 Making Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business allow zip codes that begin with 0.
PC Magazine September 27, 2006	Force Unique Numbers in Excel Keep duplicate numbers from being inserted into a column in Microsoft Excel.
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking	Find Unique Rows in Excel Stop searching for new or special entries in Excel by telling the software to how to do the hunting and highlighting for you.
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Helen Bradley	Fast Data Entry in Excel Anytime you can enter data without having to type it yourself, you improve accuracy and save yourself effort. There are plenty of opportunities in Excel to enter data in a faster and smarter way than via the keyboard.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2010 Nathan Alderman	Make Your Checkbook Work for You Hate math? This easy, automated checkbook crunches numbers for you.
PC Magazine June 1, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking	Annoying Office Clipboard When I copy cells in Microsoft Excel, after the second copy action in a worksheet the clipboard panel pops up on the right and shrinks the visible portion of my worksheet. How can I disable this feature?
PC Magazine June 18, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking	Tech Tip: Cell Couture Tips for working with Excel.
PC Magazine March 2, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking	Transform Forced Text to Numbers in Excel One of my clients sends me Microsoft Excel files in which all the columns are in text format, even when they contain only numbers. What is the easiest way to correct the number formatting?
PC World October 11, 2002 John Walkenbach	Who Knew Excel Could Do That? Ten Top Tips Make your spreadsheets work harder and give them a polished look with these nifty tricks.
PC Magazine October 10, 2007 Gary Berline	Excel Tip: Cell Navigation Jump easily from one cell to a non-neighboring cell.
PC Magazine April 20, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking	Another Way to Separate Address Elements Here's another approach to breaking addresses apart, but one that requires no formulas for use with Excel.
PC Magazine November 16, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking	Import Over 256 Columns in Excel How to a list of more than 256 items into excel.
PC Magazine June 22, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking	Get the Last Nonblank Cell in An Excel Range Creating an array formula for this task.
PC Magazine February 1, 2010 M. David Stone	Repeat Rows and Columns in Multipage Excel Documents If your Excel table is longer than one page, it's often helpful to repeat the header row at the top of every page.
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Sarah Pike	Excel Tip: Rearrange Data Data is much easier to manipulate when Excel can help with the sorting.
PC Magazine July 12, 2006	Conditional Formatting for Plotted Points in Excel Faking conditional formatting for your plots.
PC Magazine June 1, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking	Easy Date and Time Entry in Excel Cut down data entry time in a flash with handy Excel tricks.
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Edward Mendelson	Office Problems, Solved! Some of the most notorious problems and the most useful tricks with Microsoft office.
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Ben Z. Gottesman	Dragging a Field Trouble replicating the item "Drag That Field Again and Again" using PivotTables in Excel 2003.
PC Magazine August 17, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking	Protect Shared Documents I want to protect Microsoft Word and Excel files from any changes when I send them to other people. Is there some way to lock the format and content when I send them to others?
PC Magazine December 14, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking	Advanced Ranking in Excel Q: I have columns of students, band instruments, and tryout scores... A: This seemingly knotty problem can be solved with a single formula...
PC Magazine July 22, 2008	Strange Google Names The search monolith is snatching up Web addresses that are misspellings or variations (some risque) of its name, as well as stockpiling seemingly random ones. Here's a sampling.