Custom Lists

Often we fill out tables with data that are meaningful strings. This can be for example the days of the week, the names of months, and so on. Therefore, it would be convenient to have automation using just enough to enter only the first member of the string, for example, “MONDAY”, and when applying a fill-in technique to Excel, automatically fill in the other several selected fields with the names of the remaining days of the week. This automatics are the Custom Lists and will be referred to in the following text.

Data series

When entering data into a table among them, there is often a meaningful connection, that is, they belong to a certain set of data. This is most commonly encountered when filling out the regular numbers in the table. Excel has fine mechanisms for automatically filling data sets that, apart from numbers, can also be used to fill dates, as well as to copy values ​​in a table. The following text will be about the series of data series.

Advanced filters

Advanced filtering is a technique that is used to narrow the data set in the table based on values ​​from another table. In this case, we can consider a second table as a filter containing one or more criteria, each assigned as a separate row in the table, where the values ​​in the columns are filter criteria. Once created advanced filters can also be used to filter multiple tables.

Using filters

Here’s a very useful option! Filters can allow you to easily view, sort and narrow large tables based on one or more of the given criteria. All this makes filtered tables the first choice for entering data about partners, contacts, or even creating a simple CRM system. Working with filters is easy and intuitive, they are swiftly created and removed from the table. Read on, you will going to like this!

Sorting data

When we enter data in a table, we often need to edit them in a ascending or descending order. In other words, sorting them. Excel offers quick sorting, according to the content of the first column in the table, as well as advanced sorting where it is possible to set several criteria and select multiple sorting methods. The following text will detail the sorting of data, and I’m sure you will learn something new.