If you work in sales, marketing or any department that uses/receives reports from Business Intelligence software, you’re probably familiar with the Sales Funnel Chart. If you are looking to create a funnel chart of your own, you might find that it’s a bit of a trick. Excel gives you the tools to create the iconic…
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Once you have gone to the effort of collecting, organizing and processing your data, you probably want to show it off! Tables do a nice job of presenting raw information, but a chart can bring your data to life. Charts create visual impact that conveys not only the data itself, but its relationships and meaning.
Excel’s PivotTable feature allows you to organize information in such a way that you can answer many questions about your data that would otherwise require lots of formulas, functions and “IF” statements. To get even more answers out of your data, PivotTables offer Calculated Fields and Calculated Items.
It’s a common scenario: Data is combined from multiple sources, records are entered by multiple users or you simply have multiple transactions with the same information. The end result is that you need to find and manipulate duplicates. Excel gives you several ways to do this, depending on your data and what results you are…
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PivotTables have some useful “hidden” features that can make interpreting your data even easier. One such feature allows you to view data by date groupings (such as month, quarter, even week and hour of day). By grouping within the PivotTable itself, you avoid constantly changing your source data and creating multiple PivotTables from the same…
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Once you become a PivotTable fan, you will start to see lots of uses for this powerful analysis tool. But what can you do when the data you want to use is in separate tables in multiple sheets across your workbook? Excel 2013 introduced a method – called the Data Model – that lets you…
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PivotTables are great tools for grouping, summarizing and totaling information from raw data. Once you have created a table, then you are ready to get even more out of your information by using the summarized data in additional formulas or calculations. The way Excel does this is through Calculated Fields.
Once you have a PivotTable created, you may find that Excel’s default formatting is bland at best, unreadable at worst. Here are five formatting options you can adjust when you need to get a PivotTable ready for a presentation or report, but don’t need to create something as visually elaborate as a PivotChart.
Are you looking for the “peanut butter and chocolate” of workplace efficiency: how to combine the power of Macros with the convenience of search? As of Office 2013, Excel does not provide an easy way to include a variable search term in the execution of a series of tasks recorded in a macro. By easy,…
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Microsoft opened the door additional functionality through apps in Office 2013. If you want to create visual impact for your data in charts and graphics, there are numerous apps or add-ins to meet your need. For more on add-ins, check out our post: Three Excel Chart Add-Ins to Create Unique Charts and Graphics.
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