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.

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. In older versions of Excel, people ...

After creating the relationship, Excel will identify those tables as a Data Model Table, not a Worksheet Table in the dropdowns. To see what Excel did, click Manage Data Model in the Data Tools group.