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For me, Excel tables are one of the best things in Excel.
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And the reason why I love Excel tables so much is that they take a lot of the hard work out of formatting
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and organizing your data.
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And also, they help you update data's super quickly.
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So we've already seen how we can put data into an Excel table a few times throughout this course, but
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I just want to recap it in case you did miss that part.
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And I also want to show you why it's so important that you put your data sets into excel tables.
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And this is my number one recommendation.
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Whenever you import data and you clean it, the last step should be to not only spell, check it, but
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also put it into an Excel table.
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It's going to make your life so much easier when you then start to build pivot tables and charts based
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off of this data.
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So I want to start out by showing you a quick example of creating a table and why it can be so useful.
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So I have a very tiny dataset here.
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I have a few countries listed and I just have some sales figures for these countries.
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What I want to do is I want to put this little piece of data into a table.
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Now all I need to do here is click within my data and press the control T keyboard shortcuts.
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Now really important, make sure that you select my table has headers if it does, in fact, have column
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headings and click on.
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OK, now that is going to format your data as a table.
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Now how do I know it's a table apart from the obvious formatting?
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Well, I can see that I now have a table design ribbon appear at the top.
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And this is one of those contextual ribbons if I'm clicked somewhere else on the worksheet.
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The table design ribbon disappears if I'm clicked with in my table.
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It reappears basically on this ribbon.
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I have all of the commands, all of the formatting that I need for this table.
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Now, I don't particularly like banded rows, so the first thing I'm going to do here is turn those
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off.
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Now my next step is to always name your tables, because by default, when you create a table, Excel
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is going to assign it a very generic name and you can see here on the table design ribbon in the properties
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group.
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This table is currently just called Table one.
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If I was to create another table, it would be Table two.
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So on and so forth.
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Now these table names are very generic.
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They're not very meaningful.
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When you get a bit further down the track and you start trying to identify different tables to use and
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things like formulas.
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It's going to be really hard to know what table you're referring to if you just have them called Table
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one two three four five.
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So you want to make this more obvious as to what the table contains.
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So I'm going to just call this.
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I'm just going to call this sales on the school data and enter now a really important point when you're
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naming your tables, you can't have any spaces in your table names.
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So if you have two words like I do here, you need to separate them with an underscore or you just need
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to remove that underscore and have it all as one word.
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So super important to name your tables.
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Now what is the biggest advantage of a table?
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Well, one of the behaviors of a table is that they auto expand.
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And what that means is that if you add any additional data onto the bottom here, the table will expand
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to accommodate that new data.
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And the new data will essentially become part of this sales data table.
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And what that means is that if you've created maybe a chart based on this table data, the chart will
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automatically update with the click of one button to include the new data that you've added, so it
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makes everything a lot quicker.
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So let me show you that in practice.
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Now I'm going to quickly create a column chart.
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So let's go on to the Insert tab into the Charts Group, and let's just select this one here.
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Now, if you've never used charts before, don't worry, we have an entire section dedicated to building
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charts a bit later on in the course.
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But this is a fairly standard chart is just showing my figures for these different countries.
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Now, I'm not going to do anything fancy here.
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I'm not going to start formatting it because the entire point of this exercise is really just to show
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you how easy it is to update charts when you add new data.
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So because my data is in a table, if I was to click underneath and add a new country, so let's say,
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let's just say Brazil, press the tab key.
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Notice as soon as I do that, Brazil becomes part of the table and it's automatically been updated in
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the chart.
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I haven't yet added my sales values, but as soon as I do, let's just say 20000.
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It's going to add that bar to my child.
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Now, if I hadn't put my data in a table, this child would have behaved like that.
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So let me show you what I mean.
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I'm going to undo a few steps here.
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So this data is no longer in a table.
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Now what I could do is I could select the data, go up to insert and create a column chart.
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Everything looks the same so far.
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But if I then add Brazil onto the bottom, I press the tab key.
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Notice my chart does not update.
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And that's because I've created this chart based on this range of cells and by default, a range of
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cells doesn't auto expand to accommodate anything new that you add.
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Whereas a table does.
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So that is one of the reasons why I love using tables so much.
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They just take a lot of the hard work out of it for you.
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So let's jump across to our format as table worksheets, and we're just going to finish off our sales
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data spreadsheet by putting it into a table.
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So let's click in the dropdown.
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Now remember, you can press control T to create your table.
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Alternatively, you can jump up to the Home tab and go to the format as table dropdown and choose one
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of the tables from the gallery.
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Both of these do exactly the same thing.
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So what I'm going to do here is let's just select this table.
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Yes, my table has headers.
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Let's click on.
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OK.
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And if you look at that table design ribbon, we have numerous things we can do here.
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So if I decide I want to change the table style, I can click here and I can change it to something
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else entirely.
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I'm fairly happy with it being green.
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I can then choose some table style options.
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Now I could toggle off the head arrow if I wanted to.
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I'm not going to do that because the header is extremely important.
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I can add a totals row from here.
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I can toggle off and on banded row.
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So if I don't like that banding, I can turn that off.
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I can make the first column bold.
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I can make the last column bold.
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I can even choose banded columns.
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And if you're wondering what these banded rows and columns are a lot of the time these can really help
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with the readability of your worksheet.
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So some people love these.
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Some people don't.
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I can't say I'm a fan.
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I normally turn these off.
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And if you don't like that filter button at the top there, you can toggle the filter off as well.
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Now, some other things of importance on this ribbon.
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We can do things like insert slices.
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Now a slice is simply a visual filter, and we're going to be talking about slices when we get to the
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Pivot Tables section.
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So I'm going to hold off from speaking about that too much at this moment.
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Now what I can also do from here is I can create a pivot table.
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I can remove duplicates.
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So I think we did this already.
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Let's click on.
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OK, yeah, we go to duplicates found I can remove those at this stage.
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And as we've seen, if we want to take this data out of a table and just convert it to a regular range,
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we've got the convert arranged button just here.
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And then finally, we have the properties group where we can give our table a name.
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So I'm going to call this table product sales and enter now.
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The final thing I would probably do here prior to putting this into a pivot table or creating a chart
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is perform a spell check so we can very quickly invoke spelling by pressing the F7 key.
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I'm going to say yes to continue checking, and I don't have any spelling errors in this way.
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