Subtotals in Excel allow you to summarize different groups of data in worksheets to make the information easier to understand. You can insert subtotals that use functions like SUM, COUNT, and AVERAGE to total subsets of values and create an outline to display or hide detail groups. To add a subtotal, select the data, click the Subtotal button on the Data tab, and choose a subtotal function.

1. How to add, use and remove
Subtotals in Excel

2. How to add, use and remove Subtotals
in Excel
• Worksheets with a lot of data can often look
cluttered and difficult to comprehend.
• Luckily, Microsoft Excel provides a powerful
Subtotal feature that lets you quickly
summarize different groups of data and create
an outline for your worksheets.

3. What is Subtotal in Excel?
• Generally speaking, subtotal is the sum of a set of numbers, which is then added
to another set(s) of numbers to make the grand total.
• In Microsoft Excel, the Subtotal feature is not limited to only totaling subsets of
values within a data set.
• It allows you to group and summarize your data using SUM, COUNT, AVERAGE,
MIN, MAX and other functions.
• Additionally, it creates a hierarchy of groups, known as an outline, which lets you
display or hide the details for each subtotal, or view just a summary of the
subtotals and grand totals.
• For example, this is how your Excel subtotals can look like:

4. How to insert subtotals in Excel

5. 1. Select Data

6. 2. Click on Data tab. Select Subtotal.

7. 3. Subtotal Function