Almost every month, I suggest the Subtotal feature to a reader. It's an easy-to-use feature that summarizes data by groups. You define the group and the summarizing function; Excel does the rest ...

Other benefits to using SUBTOTAL are that you can opt to ignore any numbers that have been hidden, dynamically summarize data, and sum filtered values. And one of the most useful reasons is that you ...

Microsoft Excel PivotTables turn data into meaningful information, but it's difficult to add grand total rows. Read on to learn how.