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.

First look: Excel 2013 New features like "flash fill" take some pain out of number and data crunching.

Excel 2013 added Recommended PivotCharts, which can be found under the Recommended Charts icon in the Charts area of the Insert tab. You can preview a chart by hovering your mouse over that option.

How to Stop Excel From Grouping Windows. Unlike previous versions of Excel, Excel 2013 separates each workbook into its own window, enabling you to simultaneously view all spreadsheets. Each ...

If you haven’t discovered it already, allow me to introduce you to a free add-in to Excel 2013 which gives you an eye-catching new way to display geographic and time-based data dynamically in 3D: ...

How to Open an XLS File in Excel. XLS files are Excel workbook files created in Excel 97 or Excel 2003. The 2007, 2010 and 2013 versions of the program use the XLSX format by default to save ...

Q: When I open two Excel files in two instances of Excel and display them on two monitors, I find that I cannot then copy formulas back and forth between the files—only the formula’s calculated value ...

The feature works with all recent versions of Microsoft Excel, including Office 365. I hope the post was easy to follow and you can now transpose rows into columns.