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Microsoft Excel is a powerful program, and you can make it even more powerful by learning the Excel tips, Excel tricks, and Excel tutorials that help make you an Excel guru. You've come to the right place to get all the information you need.

This is the place to find easy-to-use, succinct answers to your questions about Microsoft Excel. The site contains thousands of articles and tips, categorized across scores of topic areas.

In particular, this site is most helpful for users of the menu-based Excel interface. That means that the vast majority of tips on this site are for users of Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel 2003. If you are using a newer version of Excel, you'll want to check out our sister site, which focuses on the ribbon-based Excel interface introduced in Excel 2007. You can find it at http://excelribbon.tips.net.

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