I often hear people referring to Microsoft Excel as a database—but that couldn't be further from the truth. Compared to true database systems, Excel is insecure, hits size limits too quickly, and ...

For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

Microsoft Copilot for Excel creates a separate check tab that checks row counts per source, helping you spot missing or extra ...

Microsoft Excel for analysts skills include Power Query to trim spaces and merge columns, so you automate cleaning steps and ...

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 ...

Inserting a pivot table in a sheet in Excel 2013. Image: Screenshot by Susan Harkins/TechRepublic When is the last time you opened Microsoft Excel to do some data science? If it's been a while, you're ...

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 ...

Microsoft Office is more than the sum of its parts—you can link an Excel database table to an Access database, integrating your data and adding value. Here's how. You don’t have to import an Excel ...