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 ...

There's more to Excel's Subtotal feature than you might realize. You can add multiple subtotaling functions to the same row, and you can add multiple rows.

Learn how to create interactive dashboards and dynamic workflows in Excel using modern functions like SUBTOTAL, AGGREGATE, and SWITCH.

Q. I receive regular spreadsheets with all of our company’s accounts, departments, employees, and balances, and I have to subtotal the amounts by accounts, departments, etc. I have been manually doing ...

As I showed in my first Excel functions article, the serious meat in any spreadsheet is the formulas and functions that perform the calculations. Excel offers functions that you can use to make the ...

Click the Data tab. Click Subtotal in the Outline group. In Excel 2003, Subtotals is on the Data menu. In the resulting dialog, choose Count from the Function dropdown.

Use the SUBTOTAL function instead of SUM Jeff Lenning, CPA/CITP, founder and president of Excel University Inc., says that accountants should master the SUBTOTAL function.

Summarizing data is a common task in Excel, and there's usually more than one way to do so. Susan Harkins explains three ways to return averages for multiple groups.

If they were grouped through the Subtotal function, you will see a subtotal row immediately below the set of grouped rows. If you do not see this extra row, the rows were grouped manually.