Of course, if you've embraced pivot tables, you've probably discovered their Achilles' heel: They can't be edited. Enter Pivot4U, an Excel add-in that lets you edit pivot tables.

Excel for iPad has recently introduced the ability to create pivot tables, which allows users to easily analyze and summarize their data. Today, the official Microsoft Excel blog was recently ...

Learn how to use Excel pivot tables to QA bulk sheets, plus some tips and shortcuts to enhance your pivot table skills.

Tables offer a lot, but my favorite feature is the formula auto-fill. Normally, you enter a formula and use the fill handle to copy the formula as needed. For example, using the data range shown ...

I've written many times about the many benefits of formatting your data as a structured table in Microsoft Excel. However, despite this, there's one major issue that continues to throw a spanner ...

I hope this will be the definitive guide to pivot tables for anyone in this industry who has yet to feel one hundred percent comfortable with this crucial Excel feature.

Tableau, which Gartner describes as a self-contained BI platform with data mashup capabilities and direct data connectors, is one way to move when you are hitting the limits with Excel.