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 ...

Moving from Notion to Excel streamlined my tasks with tables, filters, and reliable offline access without constant maintenance.

Q. In your November Tech Q&A article on Excel’s Scenario Manager, you mentioned two other “what-if” tools: Goal Seek and Data Table. Can you show how those work like you did with Scenario Manager?

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 displays the error "Cannot extend list or database" when your data set is not as continuous, and shows the error message to avoid overwriting existing ...

My garden runs on Excel spreadsheets that map layouts, record conditions, and compare crop performance over time.

Excel is more than just a spreadsheet tool; it is a comprehensive platform for data analysis and business intelligence. By using its advanced tools—Power Query, Power Pivot, and DAX—you can elevate ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discussion about whether finance departments are moving away from Excel or remain perfectly happy with it should really have been framed more along the lines of whether they should stop using ...