Q. Are there any alternatives to traditional PivotTables in Excel? A. The first thing that comes to mind is the function GROUPBY. The primary purpose of GROUPBY is to make data analysis easier by ...

Sometimes you may have a lot of data in your document, and it can be difficult to read; luckily, Microsoft Excel has a feature called Group which you can use to organize your data into sections that ...

How to group time values by the hour in Excel Your email has been sent Grouping records by dates or time is easy in Microsoft Excel, but it doesn’t make a great report. For instance, a simple sort by ...

You can create a PivotTable in Excel from an external data source, a table in your worksheet, or a pre-built data model. To ...

Have you ever felt like Excel was holding back its true potential? While most of us rely on its familiar features to crunch numbers and organize data, there’s a hidden layer of functionality that ...

How to create a YOY comparison chart using a PivotChart in Excel Your email has been sent Need to know your organization's YOY results? Susan Harkins will show you how to make a PivotChart in ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Knowing how to use Excel's variables gives you the ability to make your formulas – and by extension the spreadsheets containing those formulas – much easier to understand. For example, the formula ...

Slicers provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface for filtering data in a spreadsheet. Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest ...