Excel's Total Row uses smart SUBTOTAL logic to ignore hidden data, adapt to filters, flag text errors, and measure performance volatility.

You can't use a SUM() function to sum a filtered list, unless you intend to evaluate hidden and unhidden values. Here's how to sum only the values that meet your filter's criteria. Filters are a ...

AGGREGATE was built to handle messy data from the start.

Q. How do I use the FILTER function in Excel, and how is this an improvement over the filter feature? A. The FILTER function was introduced five years ago as part of the Excel Dynamic Arrays rollout.

What if you could take the chaos of a sprawling Excel spreadsheet and distill it into exactly the information you need—no fluff, no manual sifting, just precision? For anyone who’s ever wrestled with ...

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 ...

There's more to Excel's Subtotal feature than you might realize. You can add multiple subtotaling functions to the same row, and you can add multiple rows. You probably know that Excel’s Subtotal ...