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December 2010 - The Excel Team Blog

  • Give Excel tables a try

    Okay, you’ve got data arranged in spreadsheet rows and columns, with column headers. So why try tables? Well, tables make it easy to format data, sort, filter, add totals, and use formulas. With tables, you don’t need to fuss to get formatting just right. Excel automatically adds formatting that makes tables stand out from any other data on your spreadsheet. And if you don’t like the formatting you see at first, Excel has many table formats to select from. Tables automatically come...
  • Can’t find the Chart Wizard? No worries

    Going, going, gone! Yes, it’s true that the Chart Wizard was removed from the product when we shipped Excel 2007, and we didn’t bring it back in Excel 2010. For those of you upgrading from Excel 97-2003, this may come as a big shock. The Chart Wizard provided a useful four-step process that you could simply follow to create a chart with a finishing touch. Unfortunately, it didn’t make sense to update the Chart Wizard to incorporate the many changes that were made when the chart...
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