For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

Have you ever found yourself tangled in a web of complex Excel formulas, trying to make sense of sprawling datasets with traditional functions like SUMIFS? Many of us have been there, struggling with ...

Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

A reader asked what program I’d recommend for creating a “database” of her CD collection that could be broken down by song title, artist, genre, performance date, etc. A “database” is a “table” of ...

You don't need to fear imported spreadsheets anymore.

The last piece of this three-part article is about merging your custom Word documents with your client list (exported from Outlook to Excel) for distribution. Part One explains how to selectively ...

Sheet groups can streamline your Excel tasks in all kinds of ways. Here are some inventive possibilities for using groups to interact with multiple sheets more ...