To make the most of it, though, you need to know the basics. Using Microsoft Excel to add a column is quick and easy. You can do it in just a few quick steps once you've learned how.

Each Microsoft Excel worksheet is broken up into cells. Each cell is part of a column. Excel's myriad formatting tools let you add colors, formulas and borders almost anywhere in a worksheet. You ...

You can add a column in Excel by right-clicking or using the “Insert” option. These features are helpful for adding new data to a spreadsheet.

You can enter the formula into any cell, but for this example, assume you enter it in cell C1. Select an empty cell to the right of the first number in your column.

There are many formulas to add a comma after the first word in a cell. In case you have a list arranged across a column, you can replicate the formula across the list using the Fill option.

I’ll show you how to use Excel’s Advanced Filter feature to return a filtered set based on two columns of criteria. Then, I’ll show you how to limit the filtered set to only those two columns.