Whether you’re tracking sales, managing inventory, or analyzing employee records, keeping up with dynamic datasets can feel like a never-ending chore. But what if there was a way to make Excel do the ...

From simple lists to dynamic spill ranges and cascading menus, Excel drop-downs offer flexible control over data entry.

Learn how you can combine PivotChart and Slicer objects to create an easy-to-use and dynamic data summarization. Excel 2010 introduced Slicers, which you can use to filter PivotTable and PivotChart ...

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 ...

Filters organize and prepare data for Excel reports and visualizations by selecting only relevant data for display. If you are working with a filter in an Excel worksheet, you can extend the range of ...

Learn how to transform an Excel table into a live, interactive website with a searchable directory and visual dashboard ...

Use implicit And and Or operators with Excel’s Advanced Filter feature to create complex, but powerful, filtering combos. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in July 2010 and the ...

Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...

The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. Once you select the portion of your spreadsheet that contains the target data, then define it as a ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.