Converting large paper-based data into a spreadsheet is arguably the most mundane of tasks. In an era where AI can make Donald Trump sing a Taylor Swift song with perfect vocals, the manual drudgery ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers. After ...

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 screen ...