Information management and technology assurance

Q: At the June AICPA Tech+ Conference, you began your Excel presentation by asking the audience if they had ever used specific Excel features and functions; can you please share that list with me? A:I frequently begin my Excel presentations to large audiences by finding the most Excel-savvy CPA in the

Q: I’ve grown weary of having to change Word’s default fonts and formats, as well as insert footers each time I create a new Word document, so I’ve resorted to opening a saved blank document where I’ve already specified my default fonts and formats, including my default footer. This seems to

Q: I can’t figure out why the “Page break between groups” option in my Excel 2013 workbook doesn’t work.

In response to the August Technology Q&A topic “Dating Problems, Part 3” (page 85), reader Daniel Warco, CPA, (controller for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Washington) sent me a better solution than the ones I had ­suggested. As a reminder, the Excel question involved converting two-digit-year, text-based numbers

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How to find merged cells in an Excel workbook created by someone else.

Pinterest launched an option that allows you to create a business page.

Outlook has a Quick Steps feature that allows you to automate several tasks as a single task.

Excel can produce a filled radar chart, which can be useful for comparing a multitude of attributes across multiple items, and the visual results may be the solution you seek.