Many Excel tools are optional extras, but these six are essentials I rely on in every workbook.

The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. Once you select the portion of your spreadsheet that contains the target data, then define it as a ...

To your employees, payday is always an important day. Providing pay and salaries on time is essential to maintain the morale and performance of your staff. It is equally important that you calculate ...

Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

Save hours on spreadsheets using Excel formula short codes. You can easily store complex snippets like FILTER and XMATCH in ...

Can Excel send Alerts? Yes, but with some limitations. Excel cannot email an alert to you automatically unless you write a macro in the Visual Basic (VBA) editor to perform this function. And, the ...