Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

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 ...

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

The last piece of this three-part article is about merging your custom Word documents with your client list (exported from Outlook to Excel) for distribution. Part One explains how to selectively ...