If you've ever wondered what Microsoft programs allow pinning and how it might be useful, we’ve got you covered here. We are bombarded every day by so much digital information that any action that aids focus is a benefit to your productivity.

One of the most annoying things to have to do with your data is to manually clean it up. Having to go line by line in Excel to reformat names personally makes me want to scream. Thankfully, Excel has a lot of lesser known features to take care of some of those more menial tasks - including separating names stored in one column into two separate columns.