Microsoft Excel PivotTables do a great job of turning data into meaningful information, but they have one flaw: You can’t easily add grand total rows. Microsoft Excel PivotTables are a great way to ...

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 ...

When you compile data in a list, you often need to answer questions such as “How much revenue did the West Coast office generate last month?” or “What was the average number of customers served at ...

Transform messy Excel tables into readable dashboards with charts, pivots, slicers, and lightweight visual techniques.

A pivot table is a powerful tool in Excel that lets you interactively recontextualize information stored in a spreadsheet so you can analyze your data in different ways. After your pivot table has ...

"We are excited to announce support for PivotTable creation and editing on iPad. PivotTables allow you to calculate, summarize, and analyze data. We have tailored this powerful tool for the iPad's ...

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.

One of the best features in Microsoft Excel is the Pivot Table, believe it or not. There is no need to learn any formatting or coding to create hundreds of rows of data along with quick summaries of ...

Microsoft Excel offers a wide array of data sorting and organizing functions, but Excel power users often consider pivot tables among the software's most powerful tools. Though business users can ...