Struggling with disorganized data in Excel can be incredibly frustrating. You have all the information you need, but without connections between tables, it’s like trying to solve a puzzle with missing ...

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.

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 ...

Excel enables you to include data validation for a cell, limiting the type and content of any inputted data. In addition, you can limit data to a drop-down list of choices, further restricting what ...

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance, creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter and author of You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money ...

You’re probably familiar with selection shortcuts in Microsoft Excel. There are several that select text, sentences, whole paragraphs, and so on, so it should come as no big surprise that shortcuts ...

Q. I spend a substantial amount of time entering data into Excel. Do you have any suggestions on ways to make this faster and/or more efficient? A. One of the best data-entry tools to use in Excel is ...