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Microsoft Excel’s styling capabilities have improved over the time. But there are still lackings on some areas. One thing I personally miss is the ability to attach styles to Pivot table items. For example you have in one table the sums of revenues and sums of quantities – and you wish the revenues to be formatted differently. Of course, you can manually change the formatting of each revenue cell, but this is not a very modern way to handle it – considering we use styles for such formatting tasks in MS Office and other programs nowadays.

I have a little tip for those of you who face the same problem – you can still attach different color to different Pivot table items. Read more…

Excel cell format, data visualization, Pivot table, time saving

What will you do, if you have an output from a Pivot table and you need to use it as a source for another pivot table? Or you simply have gaps in the table that you need to fill with information above (or some other side). Not knowing the right approach might leave you the only option to change the cells manually – which would be a terrible waste of time for larger tables. Read more…

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