Microsoft Excel is designed to alert users whenever a circular reference is causing problems. Folks who are unable to spot the error can take full advantage of the ...

Whole-column references in Excel are silent performance killers, often forcing the program to manage a range of over a ...

Microsoft Excel relies on two fundamental reference types when addressing other cells. Absolute references -- which are denoted with a "$" -- lock a reference, so it will not change when copying the ...

Double square brackets appear in structured references in Excel when column headers contain spaces or special characters. They're also inserted into formulas when you reference header and total rows ...

Q: My partner says there’s an F4 shortcut to creating absolute cell references in Excel formulas, but for the life of me I can’t make it work. What am I doing wrong? A: Your partner is right, but ...

Office Q&A: Excel referencing, Word field codes, and a table trick Your email has been sent It’s been a month of easy answers for the most part. The problems seem big, but as usual, there’s an easy ...

Sometimes the dollar sign in Microsoft Excel is just a dollar sign, used to indicate that a number reported by a business or in someone's personal finances is in U.S. currency. But the dollar sign in ...

Wondering where your favorite Excel 2003 commands went? Worry no more. Just use these quick reference charts, which list the most commonly used Excel 2003 commands and tell you where they are in Excel ...

Have you ever spent hours perfecting your Excel spreadsheet, only to watch your carefully crafted formatting fall apart the moment you insert a new row? It’s a maddeningly common issue for Excel users ...