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Excel Data Table

Excel tables allow users to organize related data into rows and columns, and provide powerful features like automatic formula updating, built-in filters and sorting, and structured cell references that make it easy to work with tabular data. Tables also offer convenient functions such as calculated columns, total rows, formatting options, and easy conversion to pivot tables or publishing to SharePoint, making the user a "data god". Key benefits of tables include simplified management of data sets and analysis features that save time.

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Excel Data Table

Excel tables allow users to organize related data into rows and columns, and provide powerful features like automatic formula updating, built-in filters and sorting, and structured cell references that make it easy to work with tabular data. Tables also offer convenient functions such as calculated columns, total rows, formatting options, and easy conversion to pivot tables or publishing to SharePoint, making the user a "data god". Key benefits of tables include simplified management of data sets and analysis features that save time.

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Excel table is a series of rows and columns with related data that is managed independently.

Excel
tables, (known as lists in excel 2003) is a very powerful and supercool feature that you must learn if
your work involves handling tables of data.

What is an excel table?


Table is your way of telling excel, “look, all this data from A1 to E25 is related. The row 1
has table headers. Right now we just have 24 rows of data. But I can add more later!”

When you make a table (more on this in a sec) you can easily add more rows to it without
worrying about updating formula references, formatting options, filter settings etc. Excel
will take care of everything thus making you a Data God.

How to create table from a bunch of data?


To create an excel table, all you have to do is select a range of cells and press the table button from
Insert ribbon in Excel 2007.

See this simple tutorial:

Today we will learn 10 excel data table tricks that will make you a data god, no, lets make it data
GOD.

1. Change table formatting without lifting a finger


Excel 2007 has some great pre-defined table formatting options. Just select any cell in your table and
change the table formatting by going to “format as table” button in the home ribbon.
If you are bored with the predefined formats, you can easily define your own table formatting color
schemes and apply them.

2. Add Zebra Lines to Tables without doing Donkey Work


When you create a table, zebra lines come as a bonus. And when you add new rows to the table, excel
takes care of zebra lining or banding automatically. You can turn on / off the banded rows feature
from “design ribbon tab” as well.

That means you don’t need to use conditional formatting or manually format alternative rows in
different color.
3. Tables come with Data Filters and Sort Options by default
Each data table comes with filters and sorting options so that you can filter and sort the data in that
table independently. That also means, if a worksheet has 2 tables, they each get their own data filters
(usually excel wont allow you to add more than one set of filters per sheet, but when it comes to
tables, all exceptions are made, just for you)
4. Bye, bye cell references, welcome structured references
The most important advantage of tables is that, you can write meaningful looking formulas instead
of using cell references. When you create and name the table (you can name the table from design
tab), you can write formulas that look like this:

The beauty of structured references is that, when you add or remove rows, you dont need to worry
about updating the references.

5. Make Calculated Columns with ease


Any tabular data will have its share of calculated columns. Excel tables make having calculated
columns very easy. With structured references, all you need to know is English to make a calculated
column. The beauty of calculated columns in table is that, when you write formula in one cell, excel
automatically fills the formula in the rest of cells in that column. Aint that good for a God?

6. Total your Tables without writing one formula


The ability to summarize data with pivot tables is extended to excel tables as well.
You can add total row to your table with just a click.

What more, you can easily change the summary type from “sum” to say “average”.

7. Convert table back to a range, if you ever need to


Tables is a new feature in Excel 2007. So when you need to send that
excel file to a colleague running excel 2003, you can easily convert the
tables back to named ranges.

Excel will take care of the formulas and change the references to cell
references.

8. Export Tables to Pivot Tables, Woohoo


What good is a bunch of data when you can analyze it? That is where
Pivot tables come in to picture [pivot table tutorial]. Thankfully, you dont
need to do much. Just click a button and your table goes to pivot table.
9. Push the table data to Sharepoint Intranet
Site
If you have a corporate intranet Sharepoint portal, you can easily publish the excel tables as share-
point lists. This can be handy if you want to publish, say the top 10 sales persons of the quarter on
the intranet.

10. Print Tables Alone, with out all


the other stuff around
Select the table, hit CTRL+P and select “Table” for “print
what?” and you will be able to print the tables alone. This
is far more easier and cooler than trying to adjust print settings when you are printing tabular data.

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