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Manage membership fees with Excel’s Name Manager

Run a club or society? Here's how your tech can make it easier

Spreadsheets are brilliant for anything involving numbers, especially keeping track of your club’s membership fees. With a few formulas, you can automate fiddly calculations and generate up-to-date summaries of how many people haven’t paid, how much is owed, and so on.

The trouble is that even the simplest spreadsheet can quickly get messy, particularly when you’re juggling lots of details at the same time. And as your spreadsheet grows, so does the chance of making mistakes. That’s where Excel’s Name Manager comes in.

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