Pivot Table Conditional Formatting

Pivot Tables are one of the best analytical tools in Excel. BUT like any other tables in Excel, you can get lost in the numbers and letters, when there’s a lot. And the easiest way to get your point across is with visuals. And that what conditional formatting can do for you. Help you communicate an important message with your data. You don’t always need to create a separate bar or line chart for your data. Even though a Pivot Table is a great analytical tool, sometimes you need an extra push to help highlight data and conditional formatting is something that does that.

Create a Custom Sort in Excel and Power Query

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You can create a custom list to sort if you don't want to use the ascending (A-Z) or descending (Z-A) sort. If you want to sort North-South-East-West in this order instead of alphabetically (i.e., East-North-South-West), a creating a custom sort will be your solution. This video will show you how it's enable to help analyze Pivot Table data and also if you want to create a custom sort capability in Power Query.

Get Age or Years in Service with Power Query

Trying to figure out the age of a person based on their birthdate. Or you want to know how long someone has worked at your company or organizations. If it one to three people you're calculating this for, it's easy to manually do it. But it there is a long list of names on a spreadsheet and you've got to maintain it on a long term basis, there should be a more automated way to do this. This video will show you two general ways to do it ; one example using functions and another using Power Query.