Translations:Basic Excel Trainer/38/en
Excel is NOT a database. However, there are many good reasons to use Excel in conjunction with a relational database:
- Excel is relatively easy to use
- new users can get started using Excel quickly
- many people have at least some familiarity with Excel
- Excel is widely available
- data from a database can easily be exported to Excel, where
- the data can be analysed
- calculations can be performed
- tables can be created (based on the underpinning dataset, so using more than Excel's formatting capabilities)
- graphs can be produced
- Excel can be used to prepare data for submission to a database.