As a small business owner, you will often have to work with others on an Excel worksheet. For example, if you have hired a sales or marketing consultant, you can give them an interactive worksheet for ...

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.

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These four overlooked Excel features completely changed how I design spreadsheets.