Skip tables when you need spilled results, presentation-ready layouts, one-off modeling logic, or stable protected data-entry templates.
You've built a perfect Excel table, but the moment you try to use its headers in a drop-down menu, everything breaks. Excel's Data Validation is notoriously picky with tables, but there's a clever ...
Excel table formulas shift from cell positions to named columns with #All-style tags, keeping calculations readable when layouts change.