You might be wondering what is the idea behind the Microsoft Excel Slicers. Well, the main reason Excel Slicers were developed and integrated with the Microsoft 2010 Office Suite is to make sure that you can see what you are doing at all times, rather than waiting until the end. Excel Slicers allow you to easily interact with your Excel data, of course though the added functionality provided by Microsoft Silverlight. Excel Slicers allow you to put together powerful reports. Excel Slicers also allow you to filter Pivot Charts, Pivot Tables and Excel even cubes.
So, how exactly how is it that you are able to do Slivers, which enable you to view what you are doing at all times? Microsoft Excel Slicers make sure that you can easily access the backstage view and alter data without any hidden details. Ideally, the excel slicers provide a visualization of the Microsoft Pivot Table. This means that excel data segmentation can be applied to the most important Excel data parts and the segmented Excel data used for display or presentational purposes. The slicer will also enable your team to apply the search filter so you will not have to spend too much time trying to sift through your excel data, this allows you to spend more time in analyzing your data. This is what computers are designed to do.
The Excel slicer control button can be accessed from the insert ribbon, at the right top of the screen. After you select the slicer a slicer screen will appear. The main use of the Excel slicer screen interface is designed to be easy to use and convenient.
Another feature of Microsoft Excel 2010 is the Excel 2010 Sparklines. Excel Sparklines are used to locate and analyze Excel data. Sparklines allow you to create graphs even within the contents of an individual cell. Expense forecasting can be done through the use of the sparklines for example.
Slicers have a couple of major advantages. The Excel Slicer allows you to view the excel filter state that is currently being used on the worksheet. This is just one of the areas in which the Slicers beat the more common excel filter fields. To create an Excel Slicer, you do not need to have to be an Excel Guru.
All you need to is to have the desire to learn, and you will need to have a basic level of Microsoft Excel experience.
When using the Slicers, you will only need to select a few cells and once you do all of the other related records will be reflected automatically. Pretty cool huh. The standard Excel data filter will only show you that you selected a few cells, but it does not show you what cells you have selected. Not as useful. Another advantage that comes with using Microsoft Excel Slicers is that the slicers can be tied to multiple Excel Pivot Tables. This implies that if you filter your data that is related to the slicers it can be reflected across multiple Excel Pivot Tables. To be able to connect Excel Slicers to more than one Excel Pivot Tables is to do is to right-click the Excel Slicer and then activate or deactivate the table connections desired. To filter the Microsoft Excel data in your Excel Pivot Tables you will need to place a check in the cell next to the Excel Pivot Table to be used.
Note, there are several of drawbacks in using the Slicers. They do not support backward compatibility with excel 2007 or earlier. Slicers are designed for generation of Excel reports, so if the users still use the Microsoft Excel 2007 or earlier, they might not really appreciate the functionality of the Microsoft Excel 2010 Slicers.
