The database capabilities of Excel are very powerful. In fact, not only can Excel be used to create a simple searchable database, it also can be used to create a proper relational database.

How to Use VLOOKUP & Search Functions Together in Excel. 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 ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the ...

If you need to conditionally split values into multiple columns in Microsoft Excel, consider using the IF() function. Here's how.