but you don't have to spend money on additional software to make your spreadsheets portable. Microsoft distributes a free application that lets anyone with a computer open an Excel spreadsheet.

Often when you install a new application, it asks you to make it ... use the command line to make Excel the default. Click the Start button and then paste the following code into the search ...

Here, we show you how to create a pivot table in Excel to take advantage of one of the application’s most powerful tools. Before we start, just what exactly are pivot tables good for?