Excel's data validation feature is more versatile than you might think. Learn how to use literal values, input values, list values, and even formulas to restrict input date values using data ...

When multiple data variables are accommodated in a project, the time and spatial grids of those variables must be identical. As such, you must control the data other people enter. That’s when you need ...

Q: I have an Excel spreadsheet that I update weekly with our employees’ Actual Sales and Sales Goals. I manually insert a red circle to indicate those who did not reach their sales goal by more than a ...

If you see the error “This value doesn’t match the data validation restrictions defined for this cell” when entering a value in an Excel cell, the solutions ...

I began writing this series of blogs on Excel for Microcontroller Central. When it was shut down, Brad Albing (then editor of Planet Analog) agreed to copy the existing database across as a base for ...

How to force a consistent phone number format in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Combine an Excel custom format with data validation and remove the pressure ...