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 ...

Q. I spend a substantial amount of time entering data into Excel. Do you have any suggestions on ways to make this faster and/or more efficient? A. One of the best data-entry tools to use in Excel is ...

Excel's Linked Picture tool lets you take a snapshot of some data and paste it as an image—handy if you're compiling a dashboard of the key metrics from across your workbook. Unlike normal images, ...

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 ...

To begin, you need to enable the Developer tab in Excel. This tab provides access to the tools required for form creation, but it is not enabled by default. To enable ...

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 ...