Doyle_D shared this with us in microsoft.public.excel.programming:

Thank you for the explanation. It does help me visualize the
spreadsheet vs. database concepts a bit better. Your suggestion to
have an Excel front end and a Access back end would probably do the
trick, but that is a bit too complex for your average user of Excel.
Certainly, it would take me a while to figure out how to set that up.
I was looking for something that would be as simple as merging
cells--just made it so that the cells don't have to be adjacent.

Maybe I have misunderstood something. I thought that I was making a
suggestion to the developers of Excel to add a feature to the product
or to show me where they already have if it is already in there.
From your explanations, I gather that such a function is not
available at this time in Excel without rigging a workaround using
Access.

So, my question now is.... How do I go about suggesting this to the
developers if not through this forum? I was directed here to this
forum via the product suggestions link in "Help" within Excel. Is
there any way to email the Microsoft developers or other way to make
a suggestion? That's what I thought I was doing here.

I'm sorry, but this is another 'big cardboard box with holes' issue.

You see this as a web forum on the Microsoft website, with optional
"suggestion" features and others bells and whistles. The Microsoft
support website is a rather recent development.

For me, this is a Usenet group (microsoft.public.excel.programming) on
a Usenet server (msnews.microsoft.com) which I read with a Usenet news
reader (XanaNews, others are Mozilla Thunderbird, Forté Agent,
Microsoft Outlook Express,...). There are hundreds of thousands of
other newsgroups, most of them not on Microsoft servers and not even
about Microsoft products. There are newsgroups about astronomy,
cooking, fishing, photography, cancer support groups, parenting,
politics,... Did you know that newsgroups (Usenet) are older than the
World Wide Web? The web started in 1994, but some newsgroups go back to
the early eighties.

Don't let my responses to your post hold you back! Because, perhaps,
there are Microsoft employees who are following this group?

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