Excel is more than just a tool for organizing ... or other calculations to create interactive elements. Spin Button: Spin buttons allow users to incrementally adjust numeric values.

It’s a good demonstration of how easy it is to embed interactive ... a button that will insert the current date and time in a selected cell. To do so, open a new worksheet in Excel 2011 and ...

Although you don't have to format your data as an Excel table, doing so will make life easier if you add more rows or columns, and Excel generally reads data formatted as a table ...