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 ...

The DVAR function in Microsoft Excel is a database function, and its purpose is to estimate the variance of a population based on a sample from selected database entries. The formula for the DVAR ...

The DGET function in Excel is a Database function that extracts from a database a single record that matches the specified criteria. The formula for the DGET function is DGET (database, field, ...

To analyze your company's payroll expenditures, you might create an Excel spreadsheet and use some of the functions in the Financial or Math & Trigonometry categories. To create a pricing spreadsheet, ...

What if you could transform hours of tedious spreadsheet work into just minutes of streamlined efficiency? Simon Sez IT takes a closer look at how Excel’s most powerful functions can transform the way ...

Microsoft Excel is getting two new functions for importing data from other files, without the need to use Power Query or other more complex tools. They're now being tested in Excel for Windows, and ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, wishing it could just do *that one thing* to make your work easier? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually replacing text, trying to filter data with ...

Build flexible Excel functions that automatically handle blanks, defaults, and overrides without messy nested IFs.