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Microsoft Excel isn't a database, please stop using it like one

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 ...
Ars Technica

Use Excel cell A2 as database query to populate B2 and C2?

If at all possible I'd like to do this without VBA, and I'd like it to work cross-platform in Win Office as well as Mac Office. My cumbersome method currently does both, but it's . . . cumbersome. If ...

Build Faster Excel Workflows Using FILTER, IFS, XLOOKUP, and LET for Real-World Data

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...
Redmond Magazine

Launching a PowerShell Script from Excel, Revisited

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...
SlashGear

10 Important Features You Might Not Be Using In Microsoft Excel

Many people working in the corporate world need at least a passing familiarity with Microsoft Excel. Maybe you only indicated that you're skilled with Excel on your resume because it feels like one of ...