Pivot Tables

Pivot Tables are a huge growth area. This book gives people the fast-answers they need to succeed The book is far more detailed than any competing title. Readers of this book will be able to do more, and more quickly The book goes beyond basic explanations and includes real-world troubleshooting, performance and security information not provided elsewhere

Use Microsoft 365 Excel and Excel 2021 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes: take control of your data and your business! Even if you've never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their flexibility and analytical power— including important recent improvements in Microsoft 365 Excel. Drawing on more than 30 years of cutting-edge Excel experience, MVP Bill Jelen (“MrExcel”) shares practical “recipes” for solving real business problems, expert insights for avoiding mistakes, and advanced tips and tricks you'll find nowhere else. By reading this book, you will: Master easy, powerful ways to create, customize, change, and control pivot tables Transform huge datasets into clear summary reports Instantly highlight your most profitable customers, products, or regions Use the data model and Power Query to quickly analyze disparate data sources Create powerful crosstab reports with new dynamic arrays and Power Query Build geographical pivot tables with 3D Maps Construct and share state-of-the-art dynamic dashboards Revamp analyses on the fly by dragging and dropping fi elds Build dynamic self-service reporting systems Share your pivot tables with colleagues Create data mashups using the full Power Pivot capabilities in modern Excel versions Generate pivot tables using either VBA on the Desktop or Typescript in Excel Online Save time and avoid formatting problems by adapting reports with GetPivotData Unpivot source data so it's easier to work with Use new Analyze Data artificial intelligence to create pivot tables

PivotTables may be Excel's most powerful feature, but Microsoft has estimated that only 15% of Excel users take advantage of them. That's because PivotTables (and their companion feature, PivotCharts) have a reputation for being difficult to learn. Not any more! In this book, Excel legends Bill Jelen ("MrExcel") and Michael Alexander teach PivotTables and PivotCharts step-by-step, using realistic business scenarios that any Excel user can intuitively understand. Jelen and Alexander go far beyond merely explaining PivotTables and PivotCharts: they present practical "recipes" for solving a wide range of business problems. Drawing on more than 30 combined years of Excel experience, they provide tips and tricks you won't find anywhere else, and show exactly how to sidestep common mistakes. Coverage includes: " Creating PivotTables, customizing them, and changing the way you view them " Performing calculations within PivotTables " Using PivotCharts and other visualizations " Analyzing multiple data sources with PivotTables " Sharing PivotTables with others " Working with and analyzing OLAP data " Making the most of Excel 2010's powerful new PowerPivot feature " Using Excel 2010's Slicer to dynamically filter PivotTables " Enhancing PivotTables with macros and VBA code This book is part of the new MrExcel Library series, edited by Bill Jelen, world-renowned Excel expert and host of the enormously popular Excel help site, MrExcel.com. Teaches PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Excel 2010's new PowerPivot feature through real-world scenarios that make intuitive sense to users at all levels Includes proven PivotTable recipes for instant on-the-job results Helps Excel users avoid common pitfalls and mistakes Part of the brand-new MrExcel Library series, edited by Excel legend Bill Jelen

Using a PivotTable in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a quick and exciting way to slice and dice a large amount of data. This book explains what PivotTables are, how you can benefit from using them, how to create them and modify them, and how to use their enhanced features. It is for experienced Excel users who want to learn how to use Excel 2007 Pivot Tables for fast data analysis. The author is an internationally recognized Excel authority. Her web site on Excel, contextures.com, has over 175,000 visitors a month.

In this book, Debra Dalgleish, Microsoft Office Excel MVP since 2001 as well as an expert and trainer in Excel, brings together a one-stop resource for anyone curious about representing, analyzing, and using their data with PivotTables and PivotCharts. She covers the entire breadth of situations you could ever encounter, from planning and creating, to formatting and extracting data, to maximizing performance and troubleshooting. The author presents tips and techniques that can’t be found in Excel’s Help section, while carefully explaining the most confusing features of PivotTables to help you realize their powerful potential.

The jargon associated with Microsoft Excel's pivot tables ("n-dimensional cross tabulations") makes them look complex, but they're really no more than an easy way to build concise, flexible summaries of long lists of raw values. If you're working with hundreds (or hundreds of thousands) of rows, then pivot tables are the best way to look at the same information in different ways, summarize data on the fly, and spot trends and relationships. This handy guide teaches you how to use Excel's most powerful feature to crunch large amounts of data, without having to write new formulas, copy and paste cells, or reorganize rows and columns. You can download the sample workbook to follow along with the author's examples.- Create pivot tables from spreadsheet or database tables.- Rearrange pivot tables by dragging, swapping, and nesting fields.- Customize pivot tables with styles, layouts, totals, and subtotals.- Combine numbers, dates, times, or text values into custom groups.- Calculate common statistics or create custom formulas.- Filter data that you don't want to see.- Create and customize pivot charts.- Unlink a pivot table from its source data.- Control references to pivot table cells.- Plenty of tips, tricks, and workarounds.- Fully cross-referenced and indexed.Contents1. Pivot Table Basics2. Nesting Fields3. Grouping Items4. Calculations and Custom Formulas5. Filtering Data6. Charting Pivot Tables7. Tricks with Pivot TablesAbout the AuthorTim Hill is a data miner based in Las Vegas, Nevada. When he's not crunching numbers in SAS, Excel, R, or SQL, Tim plays poker, hikes canyons, and avoids malls.

Get more out of your data with step-by-step tutorials for the Excel features you need to know Excel is still the most popular tool for organizing and analyzing data, and today's professionals are expected to have a high degree of fluency with it. Complex Excel tools like Pivot Tables, PowerQuery, and PowerPivot can help you manage and report on data the way you need to. Getting Great Results with Excel Pivot Tables, PowerQuery and PowerPivot offers a fresh look at how these tools can help you. Author and Microsoft Certified Trainer Thomas Fragale breaks down the topics into easy-to-use steps and screenshots, so you'll be able to put your advanced Excel skills into practice right away. Using Pivot Tables, PowerQuery, and PowerPivot, you can import, sort, transform, summarize, and present your data, all without having to be a programmer. This book takes the technical jargon out of using these features, so you can do your job more efficiently, bring value to your teams, and advance your career. The plain-English instructions inside will help anyone learn to get quick, meaningful results from your data, without having a degree in computing. Get easy-to-understand walkthroughs for analyzing data and creating dashboards in Microsoft Excel Learn how to organize data in Excel and use advanced features to find patterns and insights Summarize any kind of data faster and easier, leaving you more time for other tasks Turn raw numbers into new knowledge, reports, and charts that tell coworkers and customers what they need to know This book is great for anybody who has tons of raw data and needs to make sense of it. Managers, salespeople, finance professionals, marketers—along with anyone else who works with large amounts of data—will love this quick and easy guide to Pivot Tables, PowerQuery, and PowerPivot.

The jargon associated with Microsoft Excel's pivot tables ("n-dimensional cross tabulations") makes them look complex, but they're really no more than an easy way to build concise, flexible summaries of long lists of raw values. If you're working with hundreds (or hundreds of thousands) of rows, then pivot tables are the best way to look at the same information in different ways, summarize data on the fly, and spot trends and relationships. This handy guide teaches you how to use Excel's most powerful feature to crunch large amounts of data, without having to write new formulas, copy and paste cells, or reorganize rows and columns. You can download the sample workbook to follow along with the author's examples. - Create pivot tables from worksheet databases. - Rearrange pivot tables by dragging, swapping, and nesting fields. - Customize pivot tables with styles, layouts, totals, and subtotals. - Combine numbers, dates, times, or text values into custom groups. - Calculate common statistics or create custom formulas. - Filter data that you don't want to see. - Create and customize pivot charts. - Unlink a pivot table from its source data. - Control references to pivot table cells. - Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. - Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Pivot Table Basics 2. Nesting Fields 3. Grouping Items 4. Calculations and Custom Formulas 5. Filtering Data 6. Charting Pivot Tables 7. Tricks with Pivot Tables