Open Microsoft Excel and list your data in column A. As an example, you might list your 30 students' grades from cells A1 through A30. List the data ranges in which the frequencies should be ...

You can issue commands to Excel or other DDE-compatible programs directly from the SAS System using DDE. In the following example, the Excel application is invoked using the X command; a spreadsheet ...

Tip: If Excel has trouble understanding elements of your data set — for example, failing to recognize column headers as such — try converting your data to table format first. (See our Excel ...

A frequency table tabulates the number of times values from a data set appear within a configured range. As an example, you might have a list of employee scores and want to display the frequency ...

As before, let’s apply this Excel function to a more complex situation using the data set in Figure D. In the BYCOL() example, we returned an array set of months.

Sorting is one of Microsoft Excel's easiest tasks. Click; you're done! At least until you need to sort by multiple columns. For this sort task, you'll need a custom sort. Here's how.

Structuring Your Data. Organizing unstructured data into a consistent format is the foundation of effective data cleaning. Excel provides several functions to help you reshape and align your data ...