Almost every month, I suggest the Subtotal feature to a reader. It's an easy-to-use feature that summarizes data by groups. You define the group and the summarizing function; Excel does the rest. This ...

Excel's Subtotal command allows you to quickly create subtotals in your sorted data, and then collapse the view to to show only the new subtotal rows. When you try to copy the subtotals by themselves, ...

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

Mastering Excel goes far beyond SUM and VLOOKUP. By learning functions like COUNT, AVERAGE, SUMIF, SUBTOTAL, XLOOKUP, and INDEX/MATCH, you can find opportunities to improve your Excel sheet. Some ...

While the PIVOTBY function can only reference source data in Excel, if you create a PivotTable in Excel 2016 or later or Excel for Microsoft 365, you can choose to pull in data from an external source ...

Wondering where your favorite Excel 2003 commands went? Worry no more. Just use these quick reference charts, which list the most commonly used Excel 2003 commands and tell you where they are in Excel ...

For productivity software, Microsoft Office is not the only game in town. You can download a free copy of OpenOffice and get equivalent programs: a word processor ...