Almost every month, I suggest the Subtotal feature to a reader. It's an easy-to-use feature that summarizes data by groups. You define the group and the summarizing function; Excel does the rest ...

Q. I receive regular spreadsheets with all of our company’s accounts, departments, employees, and balances, and I have to subtotal the amounts by accounts, departments, etc. I have been manually doing ...

Adding a condition to a simple revenue sheet might spell trouble in Microsoft Excel, but don't worry--a simple conditional function can handle the request.

Accept defaults ("Microsoft Office Excel list or database" and "PivotTable") and click Next. You can come back later and choose PivotChart report to make pretty charts for the PHBs.

There's more to Excel's Subtotal feature than you might realize. You can add multiple subtotaling functions to the same row, and you can add multiple rows.

How to Create a Summary Chart in Excel. Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products ...

Almost every month, I suggest the Subtotal feature to a reader. It's an easy-to-use feature that summarizes data by groups. You define the group and the summarizing function; Excel does the rest ...