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

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might realize. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.

To do that, select the Data tab, highlight the table, and click From Table/Range in the Get & Transform Data command group of the ribbon. In the Power Query editor, select the columns you want to ...