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How to Create Lists in Excel

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Creating Tables and Lists

A table of data in Excel

A table of data in Excel

� Ted French

Tables of data

The basic format for storing data in Excel is a table. In a table, data is entered in rows. Each row is known as a record.

Once a table has been created, Excel's data tools can be used to search, sort, and filter the records to find specific information.

Although there are a number of ways you can use these data tools in Excel, the easiest way of doing so is, to create what's known as a list from the data in a table.

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