XDA Developers on MSN

Excel as a database

While Excel is renowned for its versatility in calculations and data visualization, it can also do the job just fine as a ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Microsoft Excel isn't a database, please stop using it like one

Excel offers no such constraint. If someone is determined to enter bad data, they can simply paste values over a validated ...
Ars Technica

Use Excel cell A2 as database query to populate B2 and C2?

If at all possible I'd like to do this without VBA, and I'd like it to work cross-platform in Win Office as well as Mac Office. My cumbersome method currently does both, but it's . . . cumbersome. If ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s What-If Analysis with Data Table for data analysis

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s Goal Seek for data analysis

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?
TechRepublic

How to parse data in Microsoft Excel

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 ...