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Creating Excel Tables: Quick Tip to Get Up-to-Speed

June 15, 2016 by Tyrone Pernsley

Excel provides you with many preset formatting options that you simply need to click to activate. One of the most common and most useful is to set your data as a table. There are many advantages to organizing your data in a table. It makes it easier to sort and filter important data, find totals automatically and create charts and graphs.

Setting your data as a table is fairly easy. First, you take your basic dataset:

Tables Image

And then you apply the table setting:

Excel Tables Gif 1

As you can see from the above Gif, there are many table styles to choose from:

Excel Tables Image 2

This gives you the power to customize your Excel table to your preference.

Pro tip: you can add more customization to your formatting by using the Cell Styles tool to add colors, text formatting and other elements to make your table pop:

Excel Tables Image 3

Once you have your table formatted, you can us the dropdown menu to quickly filter information:

Tables Image 1

You also have the ability organize your dataset in a variety of ways.

We here at Learn Excel Now hope you enjoyed this week’s quick tip on Excel Tables.

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Comments

  1. elizabeth soares says

    June 15, 2016 at 1:17 pm

    This is a great help when looking for new ways to use excel
    Thank you

  2. Annie says

    June 15, 2016 at 1:35 pm

    The tips are nice reminders of features I may not use all the time. Additionally, I’m know I have the latest and greatest process / tip.

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