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 ...

While Microsoft Excel is widely recognized for its spreadsheet functionality and calculation capabilities, it’s often overlooked as a powerful tool for managing small to medium-sized datasets. When ...

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 ...

If you are looking to build data entry forms for Microsoft Excel but don’t have any Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills. You will be pleased to know that there is an easy workaround that allows ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

If you own a version of Microsoft Office that includes Access (Office Professional 2010 is the most current version), but you’ve never used it, you’re overlooking a powerful tool for organizing and ...

The last piece of this three-part article is about merging your custom Word documents with your client list (exported from Outlook to Excel) for distribution. Part One explains how to selectively ...

Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) used to store and manage data. Access is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, and is made for business and enterprise users. While they both involve ...