For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

Dynamically visualize your data.

Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

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 ...

Build stable, high-performance dashboards using REPT formulas and UNICHAR symbols instead of conditional formatting.

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.

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting. Data bars are a kind of conditional formatting, with the bar length based on the value of the ...

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 ...

If you want to create a dashboard in Microsoft Excel, this post will help you. A dashboard is a type of graphical representation that depicts the key performance indicators for a particular topic or ...

Dependent drop-down lists in Excel are a powerful tool for enhancing data entry efficiency and accuracy. By creating lists that dynamically update based on the selection in another list, you can ...