Chapter 5
Advanced Techniques for Analyzing Data
IN THIS CHAPTER
Using conditional formats to call attention to data
Sorting and filtering information in a worksheet list
Performing what-if analyses with data tables
Examining data with a PivotTable
This chapter offers a handful of tricks for analyzing the data that you so carefully and lovingly enter in a worksheet. Delve into this chapter to find out what sparklines are and how to manage, sort, and filter data in lists. You also discover how conditional formats can help data stand out, how the Goal Seek command can help you target values in different kinds of analyses, and how you can map out different scenarios with data by using one- and two-input data tables. Finally, this chapter explains how a PivotTable can help turn an indiscriminate list into a meaningful source of information.
Seeing What the Sparklines Say
Maybe the easiest way to analyze information in a worksheet is to see what the sparklines say. Figure 5-1 shows examples of sparklines. In the form of a tiny line or bar chart, sparklines tell you about the data in ...
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