Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used tools as it is versatile and can adapt well for a whole range of functions from project management to financial tracking, and everything in between. That said, your faithful Excel can also fail at times, and data corruption can be a serious problem when this happens.

While the original quote is ‘there’s no rest for the weary,’ I’m sure weary was a synonym for business owner at one point. You’re juggling so many things at once; balancing the needs requests from customers, managing employees, organizing numbers and maintaining communication with suppliers.

Often you need to import data to the Excel spreadsheet from a text file. Microsoft Excel offers a Text Import Wizard to import data from different text file formats:

When you import data from a text file to the Excel spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel launches a Text Import Wizard to help you to import data correctly. Here you can import all or some data from text files of different formats:

When you paste or import data into the Excel spreadsheet, you might notice unusual symbols like a diamond with a question mark. The replacement character � (often a black diamond with a white question mark or an empty square box) represents an unknown, unrecognized or unrepresentable character:

How to preview an Excel table from an XLSX file that is unopenable, immediately after receiving it from one of your colleagues, or downloading it from the Internet? Before trying to open attached XLSX files or following links, try to make sure that it is not a virus.

Excel provides three easy ways to print chosen ranges: print the selection, define the print area in the Page Setup dialog, or create the print area. The first two methods work well for occasional printing but, if you need to print a specific range or ranges of worksheet frequently, defining one or multiple areas to print, significantly reduce the efforts. Moreover, with print areas, you can easily add new ranges to the current selection.

Protecting a workbook is different from protecting the Excel file with a password to prevent reading/writing or locking the spreadsheet elements to prevent editing. Workbook protection forbids other users to add, move, rename or delete worksheets and defends against viewing hidden worksheets or hiding worksheets.

If you need to count the number of dates between two dates in Excel, you don't need to use DATEDIF and other Excel date manipulation functions. Date in Excel isn't a separate type, but a number with proper formatting. The integer part of this number represents days since the fixed moment for all dates. Subtract one date from another, and you will get the number of days between two dates. Also, you can add or subtract an integer from the date, and get the date in the future or the past.

Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that is often used in project management applications.