Adding a condition to a simple revenue sheet might spell trouble in Microsoft Excel, but don't worry--a simple conditional function can handle the request.

Q. I receive regular spreadsheets with all of our company’s accounts, departments, employees, and balances, and I have to subtotal the amounts by accounts, departments, etc. I have been manually doing ...

The SUBTOTAL Function Microsoft Excel's SUBTOTAL function is quite simple to use. It lets you perform subtotal calculations for ranges of cells, and you can decide whether you want to include ...

Excel's Sort and Subtotal functions make this abstraction possible. The Subtotal function automatically creates an interactive outline of your materials list, and you can use the outline's ...

Excel's Subtotal command allows you to quickly create subtotals in your sorted data, and then collapse the view to to show only the new subtotal rows.

Excel's GROUPBY function lets you group and aggregate data based on certain fields in your table of data. It also offers arguments that allow you to sort and filter your data, so you can tailor the ...

As I showed in my first Excel functions article, the serious meat in any spreadsheet is the formulas and functions that perform the calculations. Excel offers functions that you can use to make the ...