In this post I will explain various ways to reduce Excel file size. Large Excel files slow down your system, increase the likelihood of the file crashing as well as obviously use more drive space. Microsoft Excel was designed to be a tool for managing relatively small datasets for Finance & Accounting purposes, today we […]
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Data Analysis Excel Tools
Excel is most appreciated for it’s ease of use as a Data Analysis Tool. I mean to explore the basics, as well as the more advanced Data Analysis Excel Tools. Be sure to read through the Other Tools section below for other honorable mentions. The DATA ribbon tab As some of you already have noticed […]
Excel Pivot Table Tabular layout
Pivot Tables are a fantastic tool for slicing and dicing data. Sometimes, however, you need to spend quite a lot of time to achieve the right layout for your data. Today a short tutorial on how to achieve a pure pivot table tabular layout. Enjoy. Tabular Form vs Compact Form Let’s assume we have a […]
Reverse engineering an Excel PivotTable / Flatten Excel PivotTable
Today a quick tip that helped me out of a tight spot during one of my projects. The issue was that I received an Excel file with multiple PivotTables, but no source tables on which these PivotTables were built (these were in separate worksheets that were not shared). I needed the source data to produce […]