In Microsoft Excel, a program packaged with Microsoft Office, you can create databases of information and then make calculations, graphs and charts based on that data. It's a handy program to have if ...

Microsoft Office Excel helps small-business owners analyze price trends, collect demographic data to improve your marketing efforts and produce customized reports for your bank or investors. The ...

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.