Have you ever wondered: "What the heck is a pivot table?!?"
You may have heard this term bantered about by the Excel gurus in your office. You may have even worked with a pivot table that was set up for you, but you didn't know how it was put together.
I like to call pivot tables custom table writers.
Let's say you have some very detailed data: employee data, student data, or maybe customer transaction data, and you just want to see a segment of it in a report. Let's see how we do this with a pivot table...
Join us April 11 for the newest webinar in our Office Technology Series, Excel Pivot Tables: Getting Your Data to Talk. Our tech expert and Microsoft® Certified Trainer Melissa Esquibel will teach you:
In just 75 minutes, learn how Excel Pivot Tables can help you in your work:
- Structuring data for use in pivot tables
- Working with the Office 2007 pivot table format
- Modifying pivot tables
- Creating pivot charts
- Advanced Features: Report Filter Pages, Calculated Fields, working with GETPIVOT
- Why pivot tables?
- What are they used for?
- What cumbersome procedures can they replace?
- How do you know if your data will work?
- What kind of data can be pivoted?
- How can you clean up datasets, so you can pivot them?
- Crafting pivot table reports
- Formatted tables
- Interactivity: sorting and filtering
- Filter pages
- Totals and subtotals
- Validating data: Great tips for double-checking your analysis
- Automatic updating
- What happens when the data changes?
- Should you allow pivot tables to automatically update?
- Pivot charts
- Creating pivot charts in one keystroke
- Modifying charts
- The relationship between pivot charts and pivot tables
- Advanced Features
- Calculated Fields