Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

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.

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Prevent broken formulas using tables, validation rules, separate worksheets, named variables, and the power of LAMBDA.

Microsoft Excel includes quick stats via Analysis ToolPak; mean, median, and standard deviation are generated for selected ...

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?

Transition from user to developer through consistent notation, table-based architecture, global constants, and ...

Microsoft Excel lets you store and manipulate data for business or personal purposes. The tools within Excel give you the ability to interpret data sets, similar to the kinds of interpretation you ...

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Microsoft Excel tables are a way to organize complex data into rows and columns, making your information easy to understand. Table styles let users add color and change the font of their tables. If ...