Excel's PivotTable feature lets you organize and summarize data into a meaningful report format without changing the data set. Beyond reporting, PivotTables offer a quick and easy way to analyze ...

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 ...

Learn how to quickly summarize Excel data on-the-fly using these easy-to-implement features. Summarizing data is one of Microsoft Excel’s main functions. The good news is that a lot of number ...

Digital disaster can strike in an instant when a program that contains important information closes unexpectedly. Microsoft designed Excel to address this problem through an AutoRecover feature that ...

A CSV (comma-separated values) file is a text file in which information is separated by commas. CSV files are most commonly encountered in spreadsheets and databases. You can use a CSV file to move ...

Need to extract data from PDF files into a spreadsheet so you can analyze it? Find out how seven PDF to Excel conversion tools fared in head-to-head tests with increasingly complex data sources. In an ...