Many people treat a completed PivotTable as the finish line, but it's actually just the first step. In fact, pro-level Excel spreadsheets let users navigate the data primarily through Slicers and ...

Excel’s shiny new functions still can’t dethrone the PivotTable.

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 ...

"What is the correct way to calculate the year-over-year column anyway?"Last October, a sales administrator at a client ...

Pivot tables in Excel are a powerful tool for analyzing and summarizing large datasets, offering users a robust solution for making sense of complex information. To begin harnessing the potential of ...

You don’t need a complex expression to add conditional formatting to a filtered PivotTable in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Excel PivotTables range from easy to complex, and data and reporting ...

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with Excel formulas, only to end up with a tangled web of cells that’s nearly impossible to decipher? For many, this is the reality of data analysis: a painstaking ...

Several readers have submitted questions about Excel 2010 and 2007 PivotTables, as follows: Q1: Why does Excel insert the GETPIVOTDATA function into a formula when you use the mouse pointer to refer ...

The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. Once you select the portion of your spreadsheet that contains the target data, then define it as a ...