Microsoft Office is designed so you can import data from one Office program to another seamlessly. For example, you can import Word document data and even whole Word documents in their entirety into ...

Spreadsheets contain many tools for analyzing and manipulating data. The trouble is much of the data CPAs need to analyze resides in company databases or on the Internet. So, after finding 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 ...

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.

It used to be easy to analyze your Twitter data: you'd go to your settings and ask for a download, and there among all the files would be a CSV file full of your tweets and the associated metadata.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.