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.

Microsoft Excel lets you swiftly create a variety of useful records to log sales calls, service calls and other kinds of call information you need to run your business. In just a few minutes, you can ...

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 ...

This month, Susan Harkins presents some easy solutions for a few problems that only seem big. It’s been a month of easy answers for the most part. The problems seem big, but as usual, there’s an easy ...

Creating a Microsoft SharePoint list from Microsoft Excel data is safer than sharing the entire Excel workbook. If you’re the author of Microsoft Excel data that others in your organization need to ...

Building around relationships instead of formulas made my Excel dashboard faster to create, easier to update, and more ...

Sync your drop-down menus with table headers using this robust, auto-expanding Named Range trick.

Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more. Everyone knows Microsoft Excel as a ...

Creating a running total (or a cumulative sum, as it is known in Excel) is easy once you get the hang of it. Many business owners use cumulative sums to track expenses, revenue, employee hours and ...

Most business establishments readily accept business reports from Business Intelligence software, which displays them in a Funnel chart type, which is widely used for presenting sales data. Apart from ...