I often hear people referring to Microsoft Excel as a database—but that couldn't be further from the truth. Compared to true database systems, Excel is insecure, hits size limits too quickly, and ...

Excel's grid feels like an endless canvas until you hit the boundaries of row 1,048,576 or column XFD. These limits aren't ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn advanced filtering in Excel with a criteria area, OR and AND logic, and copy results to isolate the right rows fast.

Microsoft Office is more than the sum of its parts—you can link an Excel database table to an Access database, integrating your data and adding value. Here's how. You don’t have to import an Excel ...

Microsoft Copilot for Excel creates a separate check tab that checks row counts per source, helping you spot missing or extra transactions.

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

In this tutorial, we will show a simple trick to show charts with hidden data in Excel. Microsoft Excel is quite useful for analyzing trends and patterns in large data, It is easy to lay, reformat, ...