If you find entering data into spreadsheets to be mind-numbing drudgery, then you probably don't know about these cool, time-saving tricks that make Excel 2010 do the heavy lifting for you.

Not everyone is familiar with Excel. You can protect the data input process by using Excel's UserForm object to collect data. Susan Harkins explains how.

It is particularly beneficial to use data-entry forms when your data range or table has many columns. A standard data-entry form in Excel looks similar to the screenshot below. (To follow along, ...

Automated Data Entry in Excel. One way businesses can save time and money is using Excel spreadsheets as data tables in which to store customer information, inventory details or other important data.

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.

As you can see in Figure H, Microsoft imports and formats the Excel data. To enter new data, click New and Microsoft Lists will open a data entry form.

It’s a lot easier to set up a simple table in Excel than to create a real database in something like Access. Here’s why not: The data-entry process is a lot more difficult in Excel.

Learn how to create a drop-down list using Data Validation in Excel. Data Validation limits the type of data that can be entered into a cell.