Why You Should Stop Using Excel Ranges: The Power of Ctrl + T Why You Should Stop Using Excel Ranges: The Power of Ctrl + T If you are still formatting your data by manually selecting cells and clicking "All Borders," you are working harder than you need to. It's time to meet the official Excel Table. There is a silent epidemic in the corporate world: Static Ranges . You see it every day. Someone builds a beautiful report based on data in rows 1 through 100. The next day, they add row 101. But their Pivot Table doesn't update. Their SUM formula is still looking at row 100. Their VLOOKUP is missing the new data. Why? Because they are treating Excel like a digital piece of paper instead of a database. They are using "Ranges" (Standard Cells) instead of "Tables" (Database Objects). In 2026, using standard ranges for datasets should be considered a ...