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

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, trying to make sense of messy data or create reports that actually tell a story? Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, Excel can ...

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 ...

Hidden inside Excel is a tool that forecasts future patterns from your data in just a few clicks.

In Microsoft Excel, learn how to report time values by the hour using the underlying date serial value. Grouping records by dates or time is easy in Microsoft Excel, but it doesn’t make a great report ...

One of the most popular tasks in Microsoft Excel is filtering dates by month, or another particular criterion. However, there are times when the Excel date filter grouping does not work as intended, ...

Summarizing data is a common task in Excel, and there’s usually more than one way to do so. Susan Harkins explains three ways to return averages for multiple groups. If you have three or more rows of ...

<br><br>If that's not clear, here's a screenshot of what I mean. I happen to be viewing that in Excel 2007 but they're using E2k3. This grouping/"outline" is an Excel thing.<br><br>This was generated ...

Q: I use Excel’s Group tool to expand and collapse our employees’ weekly timesheet data, but it takes forever to group each section individually for each of my 300-plus employees. Can you tell me how ...

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.