Have you ever found yourself tangled in a web of complex Excel formulas, trying to make sense of sprawling datasets with traditional functions like SUMIFS? Many of us have been there, struggling with ...

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 ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

Part Two of this three-part article covers how to import your Outlook contact list—the CSV file—into Excel, then how to refine, maintain, and manage that database so, in Part Three, you can merge it ...