Use slicers to quickly filter chart data
Author: Oscar Cronquist Article last updated on November 05, 2018
Slicers let you control data displayed in a chart, simply press with left mouse button on a button to quickly filter data.
How to add a slicer
You need to convert your data into an Excel defined table before you can add a slicer.
- Select a cell in your data set, this is needed so Excel knows which data you want to convert.
- Press and hold CTRL then press T, release all keys.
- A dialog box appears.
- Press with left mouse button on "OK" button.
Now finally we can add a slicer.
- Go to tab "Insert" on the ribbon.
- Press with left mouse button on a cell in the Excel defined table.
- Press with left mouse button on the "Slicer" button on the ribbon.
- Another dialog box appears, select the checkboxes corresponding to the values you want to filer.
- Press with left mouse button on "OK" button.
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