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How to Create an Automatic Outline in Microsoft Excel
May 6, 2021, 10:24 am EDT
| 3 min read
It can be tough to organize a lengthy spreadsheet to make your data easier to read. Microsoft Excel offers a useful grouping feature to summarize data using an automatic outline. Here’s how it’s done.
What You Need to Create an Outline in Excel
In Microsoft Excel, you can create an outline of rows, columns, or both. To explain the basics of this topic, we’ll create an outline of rows. You can apply the same principles if you want an outline for columns.
For the feature to serve its purpose, there are a few things that you’ll need your data to include: