When you compile data in a list, you often need to answer questions such as “How much revenue did the West Coast office generate last month?” or “What was the average number of customers served at ...

Hooking up slicers to one pivot table in Excel 2010 provides a programming-free way to create dashboards. One of the new features in Excel 2010 is a type of visual pivot table filter called a Slicer.

Slicers provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface for filtering data in a spreadsheet. Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest ...