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 ...

This feels incredibly natural for Excel users – you simply change the value as you normally would, and with a click of a button (or an automatic setting), those edits are live in the database.

We show you how to clean up and prepare your data for the big mail merge, everything from trimming unnecessary data fields to setting up record ID numbers.