Discover 5 advanced Excel drop-down techniques to create dynamic, auto-updating lists and improve your data management skills.

One way businesses can save time and money is using Excel spreadsheets as data tables in which to store customer information, inventory details or other important data. Excel has several features that ...

Pivot Tables are meant to simplify (and partially automate) the ways you can organize and interpret the various data points in your spreadsheets. Think of it as a way to make either Excel or Sheets ...

Microsoft Excel's Formula by Example helps automate repetitive tasks in structured tables in Excel for the Web. The tool is similar to Flash Fill, though it generates dynamic formulas that update with ...

The automatic conversion function of Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet software, automatically converts some inputs, such as numbers and dates, into specific types of data. Although this feature is ...

While a database is generally the smart way to keep track of complex data, sometimes your needs are much simpler. In situations where your data is more like a list or table, Excel has an excellent ...

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