If your spreadsheet contains a list of times, it is useful to group time in Excel into intervals such as 30 minutes, hourly or every 6 hours.
Fortunately, Excel provides a variety of methods to group time depending on what you need. In this blog post, we look at 4 ways to group time in Excel using PivotTables and formulas.
[Read more…] about 4 Ways to Group Time in Excel – PivotTables and FormulasPivotTables are one of the most useful tools in Excel. They allow you to easily summarise, examine and present a complex list of data.
This blog post explores 5 advanced PivotTable techniques.
If you are new to PivotTables, check out our introduction to PivotTables tutorial.
[Read more…] about 5 Advanced PivotTable TechniquesWhen using a PivotTable to summarise a large list of data, you may need to count unique values in a PivotTable for a particular field.
For example, you may have a list of data like the one below and want to count the number of different customers in each country, or the number of different products that were sold in each country.
If you added the Customer Name field to the Values area of a PivotTable and summarised it with a Count you would get the result below.
However, this is counting all of the transactions in each country. We need to count the unique customers making those transactions in each country.
From Excel 2013, there is a Distinct Count option in PivotTables making counting unique values a piece of cake. In earlier versions there is a workaround.
[Read more…] about Count Unique Values in a PivotTableIn Excel, one of the PivotTable calculation options is to rank fields in a PivotTable.
Yes, you can sort the fields of a PivotTable to view items in order from largest to smallest, or smallest to largest depending on what you are trying to achieve. But you may wish to keep your list of products, customers, salespersons or whatever the field is your are ranking in alphabetical order.
Take the table below for instance. This PivotTable displays the number of sales and conversion rate for the members of a sales team.
We would like to add a rank field to the PivotTable for both fields.
Timeline Slicers are a new addition to Excel 2013. They are a new filter tool that is available exclusively to the date fields in your PivotTables. They are visually appealing and easy to use.
To use a Timeline with your PivotTable;
