Excel tables have many benefits that regular spreadsheets lack. The biggest is the option to use data from multiple tables to create queries and reports.

Format Your Data as Table I like to format large datasets in Excel as tables. Excel tables appear less cumbersome and are easier to manage.

Excel Tables offer a range of features for working with list-style data.

Fortunately, a few quick formatting tricks will make them stand out, loud and clear. How to format subtotals in Excel What this list needs is some formatting to make those vendor subtotals stand out.

If your subtotaling rows are lost in a sea of worksheet data, use this simple conditional formatting technique to make those rows easy to spot.

There are several ways to make data stand out visually in an Excel spreadsheet, but one of the simplest and most effective is to apply conditional formatting. What is conditional formatting in Excel?

This column shows how to use the Data Table option in Excel’s What-If Analysis tool.