AGGREGATE was built to handle messy data from the start.

For many years, I used the SUBTOTAL function in Microsoft Excel to create easily visible subtotals at the top of my worksheets. However, when I encountered AGGREGATE, this became my go-to function for ...

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 ...

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. This ...

Excel's Subtotal command allows you to quickly create subtotals in your sorted data, and then collapse the view to to show only the new subtotal rows. When you try to copy the subtotals by themselves, ...

You can't use a SUM() function to sum a filtered list, unless you intend to evaluate hidden and unhidden values. Here's how to sum only the values that meet your filter's criteria. Filters are a ...

Later, we'll add an IF() function that returns a subtotal for each day. How to calculate conditional subtotals in an Excel revenue sheet Your email has been sent Adding a condition to a simple revenue ...