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You may work with Microsoft Excel mostly in Normal view with the default zoom level, which displays a limited number of rows and columns on the screen at one point, but Excel offers a variety of other ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.