Slicer in Excel - The Pivot Table Remote Control

Posted on 20 November 2009

Slicer What is a Slicer? One can think of a slicer as an extension of a pivot table which makes the job of filtering the pivot table data easier. One shortcoming that pivot tables earlier had was that you could not control them remotely. Short of VBA, you could do things with pivot tables only when you had one in front of you. A slicer on the other hand acts as a 'remote control' for the pivot table. You can ... Continue Reading

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Sparklines in Excel - New Features in Excel 2010 Series

Posted on 19 November 2009

Excel 2010 introduces a new feature called sparklines. Sparklines are essentially miniature charts showing only the plot and pretty much nothing else (though you can turn on chart axis if you want). The advantages are obvious. In the same amount of space that it to present a normal excel chart with a handful of data points, you can pack a dozen or more sparkline charts. If used intelligently, the data loss due to absence of reference lines and ... Continue Reading

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Excel 2010 - Beta Review

Posted on 18 November 2009

Excel 2010 beta is out today. For those who read my review of Excel 2007, I mentioned that the chances of my being able to try out Excel 2010 anytime soon weren’t very high. Excel 2010, I thought at that time, and considering how Excel 2007 turned out, would simply be too big a resource hog to work with the hardware that my pc runs on. In that case I would have to give my faithful old pc ... Continue Reading

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Pivot Table Quick Tip - Using Pivot Table to Separate Data

Posted on 16 November 2009

So the poor little manager looks at his computer and says, "how to heck am I supposed to separate this data down to individual sheets for each department." The manager in question had just been handed over a large file containing financial information for all the departments in his organization and was asked to break it down so that each department's data should end up in a separate sheet. The manager ... Continue Reading

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CELL Formula in Excel - How to Use CELL Formula and Examples

Posted on 14 November 2009

Syntax of CELL Formula Example of CELL Formula Possible Errors returned by the CELL Formula CELL formula returns infomation about the various attributes of a cell such as address, color, width, column / row postitions etc. CELL Formula Syntax in Excel The CELL Formula has two parts: CELL (attribute_type, cell_reference) attribute_type attribute_type specifies the attribute that you are trying to find. It can be color, column / row position, width, ... Continue Reading

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Hide Pivot Table Field Header - Pivot Table Quick Tip

Posted on 12 November 2009

When you create a pivot table in Excel 2007, the pivot table field headers get inserted automatically. The headers make the job of slicing the data easier but they also have an unintended side effect - they make the first column to become much wider than the rest. One way out is to adjust the width of the first column to make it match the other columns and then disable ... Continue Reading

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