"Timeline" feature in Excel

[Training ABCOM]

I am interested in the Timeline feature which is in Excel 2016 - on the Insert tab > Filters > Timeline. I expected it would be a simple case of adding some dates and data, but I can't even get off the ground with it! It seems to be requesting a database when I click on it. I thought it might be like Slicers, and would only work if my data was in a "Table", so tried that, same result, it displays an "Existing Connections" dialog box.

Any help appreciated!

Steve

[#2]

Hi,

Timeline slicer works with PivotTable https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-PivotTable-timeline-to-filter-dates-d3956083-01be-...

[#3]

Hi Sergei

thank you for the fast reply. I'm OK with it now . . . didn't think it would be difficult once I knew how to start it off. 

Thanks again!

Steve