One the downsides to having all kinds of templates and style sheets in MS Excel is that you pretty much get locked in to creating sheets that look like everyone else’s; which doesn’t do much for creativity or inspirational ideas. This is why it’s a good idea to learn how to use Excels formatting tools.

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How to Manually Format Spreadsheets in Excel 2010

If you often work with large spreadsheet files, you know how frustrating it can be to lose data because of a stupid mistake or because your computer crashed while you were working with your data.

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Recover Lost Data Using Excel’s Automatic Backup Feature

Every once in a while, an application’s feature is so simple and obvious that it goes overlooked even by those who use the program regularly. Excel’s zoom capabilities is a good example of an overlooked feature that can increase your efficiency when working with both large and small spreadsheets. Since we can’t change the size of our monitors and it is inconvenient to quickly adjust a monitor’s resolution, you are stuck with what is displayed on the screen with every application you use.

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Use Excel’s Zoom Features for Greater Efficiency