Cons of using Excel as a database Limited security Before you fully embrace Excel as a database tool, make sure to keep the following cons in mind.

How to Create a Searchable Database in Excel. Although you're probably accustomed to relying on Microsoft Excel to help you budget, forecast, plan and report the numbers that underlie your ...

While Microsoft Excel is widely recognized for its spreadsheet functionality and calculation capabilities, it’s often overlooked as a powerful tool for managing small to medium-sized datasets ...

I recently explained creating a database using MSWorks. Well,the database used by most folks is an address book that includesnames, addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of friends,relativ… ...

Microsoft Excel has features that are reminiscent of a database, although it’s not a database application and never will be.

Don't have access to Access? You can use Excel to open the database you want, using the MS Query Wizard. Here's how to multitask using Office's versatile spreadsheet program.

Excel displays the error message "Cannot extend list or database" if your new data record has to delete existing data. Data forms add records into a row directly after your last record.

I consider myself an Excel poweruser. I program in it daily (20ish hours a week) and manage a few thousand lines of code for my personal use (stocks and finance). Outside of Excel, I know very ...