5 Reasons Excel Tables Save Time: Why You Need MS Excel Tables to Work Productively

Are you tired of wasting time on repetitive and tedious tasks in Excel? Look no further than this video on "5 Reasons Excel Tables Save Time: Why You Need MS Excel Tables to Work Productively".

In this tutorial, you'll learn how using Excel tables can streamline your workflow and boost your productivity by automating tasks like sorting, filtering, and formatting.

With clear and concise explanations, this video is perfect for both beginners and advanced users who want to take their Excel skills to the next level. So if you're ready to save time and work more efficiently, click play now and discover the power of Excel tables!

[angelaisland]

I always use tables now since completing Excel Campus training. It has saved me tons of time.

[CarnisChampion]

I agreed before but I saw some new stuff I did not know, thanks

[cruzinsweetsntreats]

You can also put custom calculations in the "total" row, and when you add new rows, they'll be automatically calculated as well.

[truthseeker]

When using Excel Tables, remind me of the most convenient way to show the Totals row (or a copy of the Totals row) above the column headers. At the moment, I recall adding rows above the headings row of the Excel Table, then using an "=" formula referring to the Totals row cells at the bottom of the Excel Table.

[markd]

MS Access is way better. The reason the average person doesn't use it is because they are afraid of it. I started using Access in '95, and it's been my go to data analytics tool. Excel is okay for small datasets but it has little muscle, comparatively, in Data Analytics....

[JessicaJang]

like👍82
As an accountant, I use Excel everyday..
but I think I only used I already knew..😌
I should utilize this good function Excel Tables👍
Thank you Jon!

[lztrmdg]

Thanks, Jon. This is a gamechanger for me.

[Digital-Dan]

Reason number 0 is the reliability of maintaining data in the table, without as much danger of lines getting lost outside or others included in calculations, leading to disastrous errors. Even so, I suspect that this is just a small gloss on top of the essentially wrong notion that all the calculations are really in the individual cells. Works for many things, not so much for all. Longstanding issue. But congrats to Excel for at least finally admitting that people like to group things into larger identifiable objects than the individual data entry space.

[edme]

I am a huge fan of tables, BUT...
I have a bad experience with the speed of tables. When I use a big table (no so much a lot of rows, but with a lot of columns) with quite extensive formulas and XLookUp() (no, I don't use volatile functions), adding or removing or dragging cells/ranges in the workbook, or entering a new formula in a column, really really really slows everything to a grinding halt. Excel seems to be locked (while it is not, it is still working) and it takes up to 6 minutes before it comes back alive. It's just not doable. I tried lots of stuff, but nothing worked, until...
... I converted the tables to ranges and it completely (!) fixed that. (such a shame I lots the Tables of course)

Who has the same experience ? Has anyone found a solution that makes it possible to still use tables in large and complicated Excel models? I really would like to know.