Table Style Options in Excel. Microsoft Excel tables are a way to organize complex data into rows and columns, making your information easy to understand.

You may have used Excel for years without delving into Styles (or stylesheets). We’re going to cover Cell Styles, and Smart Art, Drawing, Graphics, Picture, and Chart Tools.

However, if you’re working on a small table and don’t know how to work with the complicated features of Excel, you can do some basic table and chart magic with Word instead.

Pivot tables are one of several Excel tools for extracting meaning out of large groups of numeric data. They can be applied whenever raw data in a spreadsheet or database has to be summarized.