Excel tutorial group and outline. This is helpful if you have a large document with lots of data. To display rows for a level click the appropriate outline symbols. In microsoft excel data group and outline has the following options to set up your hierarchy. Instructor in the previous moviei showed you how to have excel create sub totalsthat group and outline your datacreating sub totals is often a great first steptoward creating useful outlinesbut creating custom groups gives youeven more control over how excelsummarizes your datain this movie i will show you how.
Using outlines to quickly view data. The shortcut for grouping rows or columns in excel is alt shift right arrow in windows and command shift k on a mac. Symbols that you use to change the view of an outlined worksheet. Excel complete course in pdf format to download for free in this support you will discover how to use the software keyboard familiarization worksheet commands computations using predefines functions and user prepared equations creating displaying and printing of graphs and database management.
On the data tab in the outline group click subtotal. Group will create your particular treegroup ungroup will remove the selected treegroup. Use an outline to quickly display summary rows or columns or to reveal the detail data for each group. If you only have cells selected not entire rows or columns this shortcut will cause excel to display the group dialog box.
There you can tell excel to group either rows or columns. You can group and outline data in excel on both windows and mac platforms. Each inner level represented by a higher number in the outline symbols outline symbols. This wikihow teaches you how to group a section of data in excel so that you can hide it from the document.
When you add more data to your outline you can click anywhere in your dataset and click group auto outline again. Ms excel 2003 training 101 group and outline if you have a list of data that you want to group and summarize you can create an outline of up to eight levels one for each group.