One of the most underused lookup and reference functions in Microsoft Excel is the DROP function. This powerful yet simple ...

Remember PDF to Word, the free Web service that converts PDFs into editable Word documents? Now there's a number-minded equivalent: PDF to Excel turns PDFs into Excel-compatible spreadsheets. (That ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

REGEX is a smarter version of Excel's FIND function, which works well for basic lookups. However, REGEX handles more complex ...

Q: We receive documents in paper form, and I have to type information from them into our system. Is there an easier way to digitize this information into Excel? A: Excel allows you to extract data ...

One of the benefits of Revit Building Information Modeling software is that you can extract data from Revit files and use it to create a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, which can simplify the creation ...