How To Create Excel Pivot Tables

Excel Spreadsheet DiagramWe all use Microsoft Excel for different reasons. It’s a great tool for any basic or complex calculations because it’s so easy to adjust and edit your data. Besides this, there are several important features why someone would be using Excel on a daily basis:

  • To visualize data — Excel charts are not perfect, but they serve a great purpose for visualizing information and numerical data.
  • For checklists — It seems unusual, but people do use Excel to take notes, create tables and lists since it’s flexible, powerful and reliable.
  • To deal with a large quantity of data — Pivot tables and data filtering is useful and can help when you wish to find any info on complex data sets. Also, Excel allows you to perform all sorts of tasks regarding quick data manipulation.

Excel is amazing, but it isn’t surprising that the data imported into Excel spreadsheets oftentimes comes from a PDF document. It isn’t rare to find bank statements, various legal documents, account reports, and other corporate and federal data locked in PDF, data that needs to be sifted through and analyzed in Pivot tables.

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How To Change PDF Paper Sizes

Letter Size Bond Paper

The beauty about PDF conversion is that it makes working with your digital content in any number of ways easy. Yet while the PDF is meant to preserve your content, there are cases where you may need to make some adjustments to the document, such as changing the paper size.

When you print a PDF document, it’s completely possible to print that document on paper other than the standard 8.5 x 11 Letter size you work with in  MS Word for basic documents– essays, reports, and forms.

However, depending on what your PDF content is intended for, you may need those PDF pages to print to a different PDF paper size. Often times, professionals will be very specific when it comes to turning PDF files into a physical copy.

In fact, there are many different paper sizes that are used across different industries for different purposes. For instance, tabloid and ledger paper sizes (11 x 17 inches) are of  the same dimensions, but have different orientation. These two sizes are used commonly for print publications like magazines and newspapers and for keeping records and business ledgers. In such cases, it becomes essential to have your page resized and customized for such purposes.

Paper Size Dimensions
By User: Bromskloss, via Wikimedia Commons

To resize digital proofs, official content, and data into physical final drafts accurately, may seem difficult. But you can easily do so just before the conversion process. All you have to do is adjust the Page size for the conversion output.

As part of its roster of editing features, Able2Extract Pro can help you customize the output conversion for content specifically intended for print. Able2Extract comes supports some of the most common paper sizes that are compatible with ANSI, ISO, and Arch specifications.  

Customizing Paper Sizes In Able2Extract

To access this option in Able2Extract Professional, go to Edit Document>Resize Pages:

Resize PDF pages options

To change your PDF conversion size, click on the drop down arrow and select your desired paper size:

Resizing PDF pages with Able2Extract

Finally, click on the Resize button and you’re all set to continue your conversion.

So whether you need  to change the format from an A series to an ISO standard size, Able2Extract Professional can make it work. To try this feature and see what paper sizes you can convert to, download a free trial for 7 days.  

How To Redact Sensitive Data In PDF Tax Documents

Performing Manual Calculations

Paying income taxes can be a real nightmare for some, but we all pay taxes in one form or another. For example, when you work at your job to make money, taxes are deducted from your pay. Also, when you make purchases at stores, some percentage of the cost you pay goes towards sales tax. The same thing goes for owning property — you pay property taxes. But, how did income taxes all start?

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6 Useful Spring Cleaning Tricks For Your Computer

Cleaning Computer

Spring has begun and it’s time to get rid of your winter clothes and take out that light spring outfit. But it’s also that time of year where you need to do big spring housecleaning. It’s out with the old and in with the new.

But this doesn’t only apply to your house. There’s one other thing that needs to be cleaned and it’s perhaps the more important one: your computer.

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