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How to use the PivotTable Fields pane in Microsoft Excel

You can create a PivotTable in Excel from an external data source, a table in your worksheet, or a pre-built data model. To ...
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Using Excel’s What-If Analysis with Data Table for data analysis

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Stop Using Basic Excel Drop-Downs : 5 Advanced Tricks For Dynamic Drop-Downs

Discover 5 advanced Excel drop-down techniques to create dynamic, auto-updating lists and improve your data management skills.
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How to use slicers in Excel

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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Excel basics: Get started with tables

Placing spreadsheet data into a table quickly formats it and makes it easy to work with and analyze. Here’s how to use this basic yet powerful Excel tool. Tables are one of the fundamental tools in ...
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Python in Excel The Smarter Way to Use External Data

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

If you are interested in Excel’s text functions, you can also read the August 2023 Tech Q&A article “Join Text in Excel”, which explains the function TEXTJOIN, and the previous item in this month’s ...