While Excel is renowned for its versatility in calculations and data visualization, it can also do the job just fine as a database. Small businesses, non-profits, and even departments within larger ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover the 4 Excel features that are changing data management forever—PivotTables, Power Query, Excel Tables, and Dynamic Arrays!

The first thing to understand about Tableau is that it is a data visualization program. Data visualization programs empower CPAs and other users to render the results of analyses in sophisticated, ...

Did you know that you can export an Access database to an Excel worksheet? In Microsoft Excel, there are features to import or export data from or to an Excel worksheet. When exporting data to Excel, ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...

Q. Is it possible to sort a column in Excel using formulas rather than the Data tab’s Sort tool, so the sort process is performed automatically as I update my data? A. Excel has announced a new ...

Microsoft Excel turns 40 today, and the company has outlined plans for future updates set to transform how we work with data.