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Simplify views with Groupings

Simplify views with Groupings

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Simplify views with Groupings

- [Instructor] Excel for the web has a heap of cool features that makes it really easy to manage your data. One of these features is called groupings. And if you'd like to follow along with me, then make sure you have the Excel group file open. At the moment, this list of employee data can be seen on one screen, which is really cool. But over time, if we keep adding new fields of data, then we may wish to condense what appears on the screen, just to make it easier to navigate. Many folks I know will simply go ahead and highlight the columns that they wish to not see, and then hide them. Now, this is okay, but sometimes you only want to hide them temporarily, and then see them again. So, an alternative to hiding the columns, is to group them. I'll show you what I mean, just make sure that the columns you wish to keep together have been selected. I'm going to make sure that columns E through to I are selected, and then go ahead…

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