Excel tables have many benefits that regular spreadsheets lack. The biggest is the option to use data from multiple tables to create queries and reports.

Why It's Better to Create Tables in Excel In short, Word is a word processor, and Excel is a data processor. As a result, Word isn't built for optimal table creation, whereas its sibling, Excel, is.

Warnings When you use Excel to create complex spreadsheets like pivot tables, you must type all your labels on one row in order to use the data-management functions.

In Microsoft Excel, you can create relationships between two tables based on the matching data within the table, even when the tables are from different sources.

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

On Monday, the company announced that its Copilot AI is now available as an Excel function for Microsoft 365 insiders. That means you can add COPILOT to a formula and then use natural language in a ...

In this story, we’ll get you up and running with tables in Excel, from creating and formatting them to performing calculations on their data.