5 Microsoft Excel hacks that could blow your mind

Mastering Microsoft Excel’s tools is a never-ending process, even for those who have used the program at work or at home for decades. With this in mind, here are some of my favorite Excel hacks I’ve picked up over the years that you can take away and use to speed up your spreadsheet workflow.

You don’t need to freeze the first row of a table

Save yourself some time

If you’re working with an Excel sheet containing lots of rows of data, you might be tempted to freeze the first row via the View tab on the ribbon, so that when you scroll down, the headers remain visible.