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Excel's database capability is rather limited compared to a relational database program.

As an example you could have a list of stock items and their prices on one worksheet, a list of customers on another worksheet and you could use a third one to prepare invoices, using the VLOOKUP function to draw stock and customer information from the other two worksheets.

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