Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

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 ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

Microsoft Excel is arguably the greatest spreadsheet application from Redmond, and there’s a good reason so many number crunchers use it for all of their number crunching needs. While using Microsoft ...

How to use Excel’s PivotTable tool to turn data into meaningful information Your email has been sent Before Microsoft Excel added the PivotTable tool, you had to use summarizing functions and features ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Among all the powerful features and functions Excel has to offer, the ability to create a project dashboard is one of the ...

In March 2019, Microsoft announced a new innocuous-sounding Excel feature called "Insert Data from Picture" to the Excel for Android mobile app. That capability -- which could revolutionize how some ...

DGET is a straightforward lookup function designed to retrieve a single value from a column in a table or database. It's particularly useful for extracting a single point of data from a large ...