Microsoft's Excel software is an indispensable tool for small businesses because of its flexibility and the ease with which you can set up spreadsheets. Though you can use it to manage files ...

Spreadsheets are great tools. Spreadsheet programs have been around for over 25 years and many contractors have built some pretty respectable spreadsheets over the years for their estimating.

Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access both store data used to write a financial report. However, Excel has more built-in options for quickly generating a report from a small amount of financial data.

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 ...

After spending countless hours navigating spreadsheets, wrestling with formulas, and formatting endless rows and columns, I've found a collection of Excel productivity hacks that have transformed the ...

Have you ever felt trapped between the limitations of basic spreadsheets and the steep costs of professional CRM software? Imagine if you could bridge that gap—transforming a tool you already know, ...

Part Two of this three-part article covers how to import your Outlook contact list—the CSV file—into Excel, then how to refine, maintain, and manage that database so, in Part Three, you can merge it ...

FileMaker’s ease of use and powerful features are an unbeatable combination for home and small business users. FileMaker Pro has always had a deserved reputation as the most accessible relational ...