Waterfall charts, also known as bridge charts, are a distinctive type of data visualization used to showcase how an initial value is affected by a series of intermediate positive or negative values. Essentially, they provide a detailed breakdown of cumulative impact, making them ideal for financial analysis, inventory changes, or explaining the transition between two points.

Accurate comprehension and application of this tool can revolutionize how you analyze data and communicate it with others. Below, we will delve into the process, so keep reading.

Microsoft Excel is a full-fledged tool that is used in many professions. But using it efficiently requires a bit of time. Most people who need to keep track of data find it difficult to navigate Excel as they feel confused between various formulas.

This, in turn, prolongs work which can be done in half of the time. Fortunately, there are many Excel tips, techniques, and shortcuts for both beginner and advanced users to help save time.

Excel file stores the data in several components and contains different pieces of information. These information pieces are the metadata that helps in the proper functioning of the Excel file. When this metadata is broken or damaged, the Excel file gets corrupted. When the Excel files get corrupted, you may get errors, like “Unable to read the file”, “An unexpected error has occurred”, “File is corrupt and cannot be opened”, etc.

Let’s discuss the reasons for corruption in the Excel file and the solutions to repair and recover the file.

This week, Microsoft released a new Office Update to the Office Insiders who are in the Windows Current (Preview) Channel. With the latest update build 14026.20052 for Microsoft Office version 2105, Microsoft added two new features for the customers who are using Excel sheets.

With this update, Microsoft announced brand new data types in Excel. Based on the feedback from the Windows Beta Channel users, the company added a contextual Accessibility ribbon to Microsoft Excel. For more details, continue reading further.

Microsoft recently announced several new features and capabilities for Excel on the web. These new features will not only improve the rich experiences but will also increase your productivity when you work with the workbook with your internet browser.

These new features and capabilities are basically to easily format your data with color and styles, along with a new mini toolbar, table improvements, and more. Continue reading to learn more about these new features.

If you are using COM objects like Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint, you may sometime notice that the COM instances are not releasing from the process list; even though you called Close(), Quit() on the application instance.

In case you faced the same issue, this post will guide you to find the Process ID (from the HWND) of that particular instance to take further action to release it.

In last few articles we have discussed about NPOI libraries for .NET. There could be some cases, while reading Excel files, you may get an exception with 'The supplied spreadsheet seems to be Excel 5.0/7.0 (BIFF5) format. POI only supports BIFF8 format' as message.

In this quick tip, we are going to discuss about this issue, the way to handle it and the way to read the same Excel workbook content.

In the last two articles, we have learned how to use the NPOI library to read Excel 2007 (.xlsx) and Excel 97-2003 (.xls) file format. We have also discussed more about the APIs and shared the code snippet for you to understand it easily.

In this article, we will learn how to read Excel 95 and older workbooks easily using the free Apache NPOI libraries in your C#/.NET applications.

In the last article, we have discussed about the NPOI library and then learned how to read Excel 2007 file formats using the free, open sourced NPOI library. I hope, the code snippet was clear and easy to understand.

In this article, we will learn how to read Excel 97-2003 workbooks easily using the free Apache NPOI libraries in your C#/.NET applications.

Recently, we have learned how to read Excel workbooks using the Microsoft Office COM APIs. As you may already know that the COM APIs are slow while performing operation, we will see another way to read the content which is faster.

In this article, we will learn how to read Excel 2007 workbooks using the Apache NPOI libraries which is available freely to use in your application.

There are several instances when we need to make a comma separated text values from an excel column. There are different but pretty lengthy process that you can find, which will eat a no. of your valuable time to process the same.

So, what to do? Today we are going to learn a quick and easiest way to copy a column of data to a comma separated list. Continue reading to know more.

Sometime we need to export data as Excel report. This can be a plain Console application or a high end desktop and/or web application. You can of course do this using plugins/add-ons but what if you don’t have permission to use any 3rd party assemblies in your application?

Okay, in this post we are going to discuss this with help of a simple Silverlight & C# application but logic will be same in other platforms/technologies too. Keep reading.