You know how you build a PivotTable in Excel and then quickly eyeball the numbers to check whether they add up? It can be frustrating when they don't, especially when you're not sure what's causing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month, I received a lot of Excel questions. So in this article, we'll tackle random time values, an icon-displaying ...

Ever found yourself wondering if there’s a more efficient way to handle your data in Excel? If you’ve been using Pivot Tables but feel like you’re only scratching the surface, you’re in for a treat.

When you compile data in a list, you often need to answer questions such as “How much revenue did the West Coast office generate last month?” or “What was the average number of customers served at ...

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with Excel formulas, only to end up with a tangled web of cells that’s nearly impossible to decipher? For many, this is the reality of data analysis: a painstaking ...

At the sheet level, conditional running totals require focused expressions, but an Excel PivotTable requires only a few field swaps. Susan Harkins shows you how. An expression to return a simple ...

The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. Once you select the portion of your spreadsheet that contains the target data, then define it as a ...

I added new rows to my monthly sales data and clicked "Refresh" in the PivotTable. Yet, the added month doesn't appear in the ...

Terence wants to generate random time values within a specific time range. Fortunately, this task isn't as difficult as it initially sounds. Using RAND() and several time functions, you can easily ...