I started writing a series of blogs on the use of Excel spreadsheets for circuit design on the now-defunct Microcontroller Central. Those blogs, though separate from this blog and future ones that I ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

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 ...

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 ...

Would you like to make your Excel spreadsheet and data management smoother, more efficient, and less error-prone? Excel tables have transformed data management, offering a wide range of features that ...

Now we will create the relationship between tables after naming the tables. On the Data tab, click Relationships in the Data Tools group. A Manage Relationships dialog box will open. In the Manage ...

Block bad data, duplicates, and incorrect dates with these custom rules.

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 ...

Don't waste time tidying up your spreadsheet manually.

Some Excel users have reported experiencing the Data source reference is not valid error while creating a pivot table in Excel. We will learn why this error occurs ...