Data bars are a powerful visual tool you can apply in Excel to help people understand the data you're presenting. Data bars are a form of conditional formatting that changes depending on the data ...

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.

Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

Microsoft Excel is arguably the greatest spreadsheet application from Redmond, and there’s a good reason so many number crunchers use it for all of their number crunching needs. While using Microsoft ...

There are dozens of reasons to make a spreadsheet like business presentations, school presentations, budgeting, habit-tracking, book-tracking and managing the kids’ chores. But how do you make your ...