Learn the secret to building interactive Excel reports with slicers and disconnected tables—no PivotTable needed for dynamic ...

Have you ever stared at a spreadsheet packed with endless rows of numbers, wondering how to make sense of it all? You’re not alone. In a world where data drives decisions, the ability to transform raw ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

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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 ...

Microsoft Excel is arguably the greatest spreadsheet application from Redmond, and there’s a good reason so many number crunchers use it for all of their number crunching needs. While using Microsoft ...

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 ...

Using Excel’s PivotTables and PivotCharts, you can quickly analyze large data sets, summarize key data, and present it in easy-to-read format. Here’s how to get started with these powerful tools.

The city of Edina, Minn., has finally outgrown Excel — at least when it comes to crafting the next municipal budget. It’s the type of move that could play an increasingly important role in the ...