Microsoft Excel sorts slider buttons alphabetically and numerically. Fortunately, you can add a custom sort list to sort the buttons in a more meaningful way, when necessary.

Slicers are a good way to filter data in a Microsoft Excel PivotTable or PivotChart, but they take up a bit of room. By moving the buttons to the chart, you free room for more visuals.

Multi-Select slicer: Excel 2016 allows you to ­select multiple items in an Excel slicer on a touch device, as pictured below. (Previously only one item in a slicer could be selected at a time using ...