Almost every month, I suggest the Subtotal feature to a reader. It's an easy-to-use feature that summarizes data by groups. You define the group and the summarizing function; Excel does the rest ...

Adding a condition to a simple revenue sheet might spell trouble in Microsoft Excel, but don't worry--a simple conditional function can handle the request.

Excel's GROUPBY function lets you group and aggregate data based on certain fields in your table of data. It also offers arguments that allow you to sort and filter your data, so you can tailor the ...

Excel's Subtotal command allows you to quickly create subtotals in your sorted data, and then collapse the view to to show only the new subtotal rows.

For many years, I used the SUBTOTAL function in Microsoft Excel to create easily visible subtotals at the top of my worksheets. However, when I encountered AGGREGATE, this became my go-to function ...

Other benefits to using SUBTOTAL are that you can opt to ignore any numbers that have been hidden, dynamically summarize data, and sum filtered values. And one of the most useful reasons is that you ...