Data Analysis Tips and Tricks with Basic Excel VBA

Data Analysis



1 Sort: You can sort your Excel data on one column or multiple columns. You can sort in ascending or descending order.
2 Filter: Filter your Excel data if you only want to display records that meet certain criteria.
Conditonal Formatting: Conditional formatting in Excel enables you to highlight cells with a certain color, depending on the cell's value.
Charts: A simple Excel chart can say more than a sheet full of numbers. As you'll see, creating charts is very easy.
Pivot Tables: Pivot tables are one of Excel's most powerful features. A pivot table allows you to extract the significance from a large, detailed data set.
Tables: Tables allow you to analyze your data in Excel quickly and easily.
What-If Analysis: What-If Analysis in Excel allows you to try out different values (scenarios) for formulas.
Solver: Excel includes a tool called solver that uses techniques from the operations research to find optimal solutions for all kind of decision problems.
Analysis ToolPak: The Analysis ToolPak is an Excel add-in program that provides data analysis tools for financial, statistical and engineering data analysis.