How to create data bars in Excel to help others visualize your spreadsheet's numbers

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.

How to use Microsoft Forms to create a poll, survey, or quiz for school or work

You can use Microsoft Forms to create polls, surveys, quizzes, and tests for coworkers, students, and more.
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Reader Bulletins: October 10, 2025

NORTH HERO — Vermont Fish & Wildlife is looking for volunteers to help at its annual spiny softshell turtle beach cleanup day, Saturday, Oct. 18, at North Hero State Park. Pre-registration is not ...

This obscure Microsoft Excel tool imports PDF data without mangling it

In the top menu of Excel select Data > Get Data > From File > From PDF. Browse your files and select the PDF with the table in it. Now select Import. Choose the table from the list that appears and ...

Microsoft Copilot AI makes it a cakewalk to create documents in Office

Microsoft's Copilot AI can now create Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, or PowerPoint presentations with just a natural language command.