Q: I need to be able to easily color every other row in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007. Can you help me with this? A: To accomplish this in Excel 2003, you could use the one ugly auto-format option ...

Microsoft Excel works best when you have a consistent grid of individual cells placed in rows and columns, so merging cells disrupts this spreadsheet structure.

Have you ever spent hours perfecting your Excel spreadsheet, only to watch your carefully crafted formatting fall apart the moment you insert a new row? It’s a maddeningly common issue for Excel ...