If you’ve ever found yourself wrestling with Excel’s traditional Pivot Tables, you know the frustration of hitting their limitations. They’re great for basic tasks but can leave you scratching your ...

PivotTables have a reputation for being one of Excel's most intimidating features, but they're really just drag-and-drop tools for summarizing data. Once you understand the basics, you can turn ...

In today’s accounting world, financial and operational data typically is stored in a variety of programs and formats. When accountants need to prepare a report based on data from various systems, the ...

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.

When you compile data in a list, you often need to answer questions such as “How much revenue did the West Coast office generate last month?” or “What was the average number of customers served at ...

At the sheet level, conditional running totals require focused expressions, but an Excel PivotTable requires only a few field swaps. Susan Harkins shows you how. An expression to return a simple ...

The first step in any pivot table how-to is entering your data. The method of entry will depend on your situation. Some users will simply type all their data in manually. If you have an existing ...

Slicers are a great tool for filtering a data set or PivotTable. Learn how to use one slicer to manipulate more than one PivotTable or PivotChart. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or ...