But let’s see how much better the experience could be if we added some slicers. For this example data set, since it is so small, that would probably work fine. When deciding which books you might want to read, you could use the existing filter drop downs on the table columns and peck your way through. Since Halloween is coming up soon, I’ve whipped up a small data set showing some great Horror novels to help you get into a spooky mood. We’ve taken the goodness of slicers but moved it beyond just PivotTables – with Excel 2013 you can now create slicers on any table! And, as you’ll see in throughout this article, all of this works in a browser too using Excel Web App. Slicers were first introduced in Excel 2010 and made filtering PivotTables as simple as clicking a button. This blog post is brought to you by John Campbell, Lead Program Manager for the Excel Web App team. Here is a new blog post from the Official Microsoft Excel 2013 blog about the “Insert Slicers” feature:”