Here's how Excel processes that request. First, the SORT function arranges the entire table by sales amount in descending ...

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

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

One of the handiest things you can do with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Office 2011 is to share data between two different Office apps. For example, let’s say you want to embed data from ...

How to run a VBA procedure from a data validation control in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent There are lots of ways to execute a VBA procedure in Microsoft Excel. You can add macro buttons at ...

Solution: By using the ListObject feature in VBA, you can directly capture embedded tables from web pages. With just a few lines of code, you can complete data retrieval at ten times the speed. Set ws ...

Performance becomes an issue with large datasets too. A poorly written macro can bog down Excel and take forever to complete, but well-designed formulas or other tools like Power Query often handle ...

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp. Have you noticed that people groan when you pop open a spreadsheet to ...

Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

There are two situations in which you might need to merge two columns of data in Excel 2013. If you've imported two columns of data from separate sources, you might want to combine them into a single ...