Are you still putting your data in plain, old spreadsheets? Excel 2013 makes it easy to link tables, create reports and more.

In these instances, it makes sense to set up a totalling worksheet that automatically summarizes data gathered from cells located elsewhere in your workbook.

Data forms add records into a row directly after your last record. If you have blank rows in the middle of your data set, Excel recognizes those gaps as available rows and inserts records from there.

We show you how to clean up and prepare your data for the big mail merge, everything from trimming unnecessary data fields to setting up record ID numbers.

Microsoft Excel has features that are reminiscent of a database, although it’s not a database application and never will be.