Excel’s pivot tables are powerful tools for data analysis, but their true potential is unleashed when you combine data from multiple sheets. By harnessing the power of Excel’s advanced features, you ...

PivotTables can do more than you think, from splitting reports by category to calculating unique counts and percentage growth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Struggling with unwieldy Excel spreadsheets that seem impossible to manage? You’re not alone. Many of us face the challenge of organizing large datasets in a way that makes sense and is easy to ...

We have created sample data containing sales of 6 different companies in four consecutive months (from January to April). The Total Sales sheet represents the total number of sales in all four months ...

A complex Excel 2007 workbook could require multiple sheets. By default, Microsoft provides three sheets on each workbook, but you can add as many as you need. Clicking the "Insert Worksheet" button ...

Microsoft Excel 2010 provides a formula for calculating the average value from multiple worksheets in a workbook. Before you apply this formula, check that each worksheet is formatted the same way.

Q. I usually like Excel PivotTables, but because they don’t allow me to do certain things, such as delete cells or insert new columns or rows, I’m wondering if there is a reasonable alternative? A.