These five Excel tools—Quick Analysis Tool, Flash Fill, Fill Handle Options, Menu Key Shortcuts, and Navigation Pane—are designed to enhance your productivity and simplify data management.

Quick Analysis Let's say you have a spreadsheet containing records of your sales. When you highlight some of your cells, the Quick Analysis tool in Excel will immediately offer to do the following ...

Perhaps the most valuable of these quick analysis tools—at least from an ease-of-use standpoint—is the recommended Pivot Table feature.

Excel's Analyze Data has been around for a while, but many users are still unaware of its power and flexibility.

When we open the quick analysis tool, we can then apply conditional formatting, insert a chart, get totals, create a table, or add sparklines.

The number-crunching workhorse in the Office suite is getting new tools to help newbies and power users alike. Here are 10 reasons to upgrade to get Excel 2013.