Make a distinct count of unique values in Excel – How To

Excel is a love of life for everyone who wants to tame the data by making much larger data in short yet precise data without losing its meaning and value. But what if you...

10+ ways to SUM Top N values in Excel data range – Ready to...

We all love to add things up. Its always good if things add up to the way we want. And no doubt from Excel newbie to pro everyone uses SUM formula. We have recently...

Making Aging Analysis Reports using Excel Pivot Tables – How To

Last time when I discussed preparing aging analysis in Excel, I used formula approach to do it. I used the combination of IF and TODAY functions and then used conditional formatting and sparklines to...

Running Totals and Running Balance with Excel Pivot Tables – How To

Last time when I discussed how to do running totals and running balance using Excel many different ways were discussed but one was left for today which is doing running totals and running balance...

Excel Pivot Tables – Grouping Dates by Week Within Months, Quarters or Years –...

Earlier we learned about grouping and ungrouping time related information very easily using excel pivot tables. It saves huge amount of time in preparing summary pivot table reports with different dimensions of time. However, we...

Prepare (Normalize) the data for Pivot Tables using Power Query

Pivot tables is a love of life for many Excel heads for its ability to move elements of reports easily is pure awesomeness. Pivot table has greatly improved since improv. But it still has limitations. And one...

Restructuring (Normalizing) data for Pivot tables using Pivot tables – How To

Last time I discussed the use of Power Query to restructure data for pivot table purposes if it is not arranged in columnar format. Today we will be learning how to normalize the data for...

Making Cash flow summary in Excel using Pivot tables with data on multiple worksheets

Cash flow summaries are scary because of piles of data. But it is a routine work and accountants have to go through it every accounting period (monthly, quarterly and/or annually). Few days back I was approached...

Create Data Validation lists from Unsorted data with duplicates in Excel [How To]

Today I finally decided to make an Excel dashboard on debtors aging analysis. The main reasons to do this dashboard were that: I thought now enough knowledge has been delivered to my cult followers that...

Making Sales Dashboard using Excel Slicers – How To

So many reasons why not to hate Excel dashboards. They are beautiful, they are dynamic, they make everything super easy to understand. And not to mention it one cool way to grab attention at...