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Learn the Go To Special shortcut in Excel, which provides access to over 15 powerful shortcuts in one command, allowing you ...

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The differences between fact and opinion, objectivity and subjectivity, news and commentary. The roles of news reports and opinion pieces and the benefits of reading both. How to tell when both ...

Have you noticed J.Crew’s ineffably cool evolution of late? Chris Black, founder of consultancy Done to Death Projects, is, in part, to thank. Black is an ideas man. “All I’ve ever been able to offer ...

We’ve all been there. You want to wear your favorite white T-shirt and best-fitting jeans, but both are in the laundry hamper. So, you decide that it won’t hurt — just this once — to toss them in the ...

Beginning Nov. 1, roughly 5.5 million Californians — including more than 1.5 million residents in L.A. County — will experience delays in receiving their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An aspiring chemist goes to college, realizes she’s not good at chemistry, and bombs her dissertation. She takes a class in standup comedy and decides the best ...

Have you ever grouped data in Excel only to find your months sorted alphabetically instead of chronologically? It’s a frustrating quirk of the GROUPBY function, one that can turn a clean dataset into ...

Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...