Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...

Learn how to quickly summarize Excel data on-the-fly using these easy-to-implement features. Summarizing data is one of Microsoft Excel’s main functions. The good news is that a lot of number ...

Transform messy Excel tables into readable dashboards with charts, pivots, slicers, and lightweight visual techniques.

Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products across multiple departments, or within ...

Since their introduction in 1993, PivotTables have remained one of Excel’s most powerful tools for summarizing and analyzing large datasets. With just a few clicks, you can transform raw, unstructured ...

You poured data into a pivot table. Now what? Make them smarter. Here's how to use Summarizing Data and Calculated Fields in order to get a different perspective on your marketing data through the ...

If you record daily sales data in Excel, it may be impossible to explain variances from day to day. Instead, it may make more sense to summarize the data by week to spot trends and explain variations.