How to Save an Excel Spreadsheet to Your Desktop. Your computer's desktop is often the easiest and most convenient place to store files, especially those you use often.

In this guide, we'll show you the different ways to reduce the size of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to make it easier to share and store.

Microsoft Excel offers Visual Basic for Application (VBA) as a scripting tool to let you add additional functionality to your Excel spreadsheets.

If your copy of Excel is part of a Microsoft 365 subscription, there's a quick and simple way you can clear out the program's cache. Click the File tab at the top-left of the window.

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default.