Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

Replace repetitive copy-paste work by automatically combining, joining, and importing data directly inside Excel.

Quip, a startup with mobile apps for crafting and collaborating on documents, has turned on some useful capabilities when it comes to working with spreadsheets. Now you can click a couple of buttons ...

Excel created pivot tables to improve upon its convoluted, weak reporting features (which are still available). The pivot table is actually a collection of tools that Excel uses to help you create ...

We hope these Guardian University Guide tables will help the more than 600,000 university applicants next year who face the toughest ever competition for places. Our tables are unlike other newspapers ...

This is a proof of concept that I put together out of curiosity today, and it’ll likely break for some documents or Microsoft Excel, but it’s been working well for me, and I thought I’d share it.

Google Fusion Tables is a great tool to map (and chart) data easily. But one of its drawbacks is the difficulty in updating the data tables that power your map. Unless you’re very comfortable ...