Excel is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful, complex, and tricky desktop apps ever designed. Mastering Office 2010's spreadsheet app can take years; fortunately, we've got 10 very cool shortcuts to Excel mastery.
Our ongoing series of Tips for Microsoft Office 2010 has given little consideration to Excel 2010; that's because this giant, complex spreadsheet app is worth an entire collection of tips all to itself. With its cool new Sparklines displays and enhanced pivot table tools, Excel is a more powerful part of Office 2010 than ever. But our tips concentrate on the basics—you don't need to write complex formulas to take advantage of them, and, since basic functionality mostly hasn't changed, you can use most of our tips with older versions of the app, as well.
