Stop Using Excel Ranges — Use Table References Instead!
- Kyle Pew
- 11 hours ago
- 1 min read

If you’re still typing formulas like =SUM(A2:A100) or =FILTER(A2:B100, A2:A100=E1), it’s time to level up.
Using cell ranges in Excel formulas is fine for small datasets — but as soon as you add new data, everything starts to break.
Formulas stop updating.
Charts go stale.
PivotTables miss new rows.
There’s a smarter, cleaner, and more future-proof way to work in Excel. It’s called Excel Tables — and once you start using them, you’ll never go back.
See this in action in my latest YouTube video: