If you have three or more rows of data, chances are, you'll need to summarize those values in some way. Summarizing is one of the most common tasks we perform in Excel. The term summarize implies a ...

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 ...

On the advanced end of the spectrum, pivot tables can also be used to perform simple projections; for instance, you can see how the revenue of your company has changed over time by viewing a line ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...