Using Excel’s PivotTables and PivotCharts, you can quickly analyze large data sets, summarize key data, and present it in easy-to-read format. Here’s how to get started with these powerful tools.

In this post, we will show you how to create a Mind Map in Excel. A Mind Map is a diagram that represents information in a non-linear hierarchy. It typically starts with a topic at the center, and ...

Slicers provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface for filtering data in a spreadsheet. Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest ...

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Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

Type your data or use existing data from your file. Highlight the range of cells containing your data. Then click the Insert tab and click the Insert Column or Bar Chart button. Click the Clustered ...

Excel's PIVOTBY function allows you to group your figures without needing to recreate your data in a PivotTable. What's more, data summaries created via PIVOTBY automatically update to reflect changes ...