Calculating subtotals

When making extensive reports, there is often a need to calculate subtotals by reporting categories. Subtotals are, most of the time, sums and they might also be an average, a minimum, a maximum, a product, or a count of articles within a report. Subtotals can be made manually and in this „recipe“ it will be about how to use Excel for automatically adding subtotals.

Data series within a chart

Charts can be based on one or more data sets. More series are used when we want to show business results by quarter or over a few years. When making such charts, it is important to pay attention to the subtype as it determines their appearance. That is, we should choose whether to make a Stacked or Clustered chart. Also, during work with such charts, users may need to add, edit or delete series of data…