Hello, Excellers. Welcome back to another #Excel Tip blog post. This Pivot Table blog will take you through the Drill Down feature in Excel Pivot Tables. When you create a Pivot Table in Excel, each of the values represents one line of data or record in that data set. The Pivot Table creates a summary of your data set. Let's use an example in this blog post. You can download the sample data set and Pivot Table, by clicking the download button below. I have a very simple data set and … [Read more...]
Excel Formatting Trick To Merge without Merging.
Hello Excellers, and welcome back to another #Excel blog post in my 2021 series. Today I will show you how to achieve the same effect in Excel, without actually merging cells in Excel. Confused?. Don't be. Do you use merged cells in your Excel worksheets?. Have you come across issues when you try to write formulas such as XLOOKUPS and VLOOKUPS. Well, those merged cells are probably causing the issues. We can use Center Across Selection as a great alternative. Some while users love … [Read more...]
Remove Duplicates With Power Query.
Hello Excellers. Today I will share with you a great Excel tip. How to remove really quickly duplicate data records using Power Query. Power Query (previously called Get & Transform) in Excel 2016 is a really easy way to manage your data, and removing duplicate records is one of those easy tasks. See a sample set of Excel data in the screen grab below. Let's take a look at how easy it is to use Power Query to resolve the duplicate rows of data by following the steps … [Read more...]
How To Use The Quick Analysis Tool In Excel.
From Excel 2013 onwards, the quick Analysis Tool makes it really easy to analyse your data quickly and easily. It contains a variety of Excel tools. The tool can be used with data from a range of cells or an Excel data table. How To Access The Quick Analysis Tool. So, it is really easy to get started with the Quick Analysis tool. Once you select a range of cells or an Excel data table, the tool appears at the bottom right of your data set. A range of analysis tools is now available to … [Read more...]
Your Data Is In Access But You Need To Create An Excel Report – Create An External Data Connection
If you have data stored outside of Excel, such as an Access Database, SQL Server or and OLAP Cube then you can still use a Pivot Table to analyse this data, yes all you need to do is connect to this data as an 'external data source' and Voila!, you can use the familiar and powerful features of an Excel Pivot Table. I am going to connect my Pivot Table to the Northwind Access database which I have downloaded to my machine. (Northwind is the example database that Microsoft Provides, and is a … [Read more...]
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