Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

Sync your drop-down menus with table headers using this robust, auto-expanding Named Range trick.

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

Have you ever opened an Excel file and felt a pang of unease? Rows upon rows of data, cryptic formulas sprawled across cells, and a tangle of manual formatting that seems one misstep away from chaos.

A frequency table tabulates the number of times values from a data set appear within a configured range. As an example, you might have a list of employee scores and want to display the frequency of ...

Microsoft Office Excel helps small-business owners analyze price trends, collect demographic data to improve your marketing efforts and produce customized reports for your bank or investors. The ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

You’re probably familiar with selection shortcuts in Microsoft Excel. There are several that select text, sentences, whole paragraphs, and so on, so it should come as no big surprise that shortcuts ...

Build a fast Excel money tracker with SUMIFS totals, color coding, and charts, so you see monthly savings and trends without manual work.