In this article, I’ll show you how to create a static view of data that won’t update while you’re working. SEE: 83 Excel tips every user should master (TechRepublic) ...

If you've have lots of data and lots of analysis to do, but little time or skill, you need Excel's Power Pivot feature. Here's how to get started with it.

An Excel heatmap is a data visualization tool that uses color coding to represent different values in a range of cells. It helps highlight variations in the data, making it easier to see patterns ...

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them.

How to Put Two Sets of Data on One Graph in Excel. One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as ...

Data forms add records into a row directly after your last record. If you have blank rows in the middle of your data set, Excel recognizes those gaps as available rows and inserts records from there.

Once the range is in filter mode, it's good to inspect the filter drop-downs to get a sense of the data in your data set. Excel's okay with combining types, so you can quickly spot data errors ...

Excel offers several tools to simplify this process and improve data quality: TRIM: Removes extra spaces from text, making sure uniformity across your data set.

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp.

Specifically, you can use Power Query to import a single dataset like an Excel workbook, a table from a website, or a database. Alternatively, you can import multiple datasets from worksheets in an ...