Spreadsheets are a treasure trove of data, but sometimes that can make them overwhelming. Microsoft Excel offers various tools to help filter, format, and highlight data for better clarity.
While we’ve discussed conditional formatting, tables, and PivotTables in previous articles to showcase important data in spreadsheets, this tutorial will focus on slicers.
So what exactly is an Excel slicer?
An Excel slicer is a user-friendly tool that allows you to filter and dynamically adjust data based on specific criteria. It’s perfect for delving deeper into the information you want to emphasize. Once set up in an Excel worksheet, anyone can simply click on the buttons within the slicer to narrow down specific groups of data within a larger dataset.
In Excel, tables and PivotTables come with filtering tools built-in but can be cumbersome to use. Slicers provide a more intuitive way to filter data, making them ideal for sharing spreadsheets with colleagues or clients.
Where can you utilize slicers in Excel?
Slicers can be applied to any table or PivotTable in Excel. Additionally, multiple slicers can be created for the same table or PivotTable so viewers know which subsets of data are important and easily focus on specific information by clicking on the slicer buttons.
Slicers can also be used to filter chart data. If there are multiple PivotTables based on the same dataset, one slicer can be used across all of them.
2024-09-13 15:15:02
Source from www.computerworld.com
