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Pivot Tables and how to use them

Excel pivot tables are very useful and powerful feature of MS Excel. They are be used  to create instant summaries, reports and data analysis from your raw data .  In this page, learn all about how to create an Excel pivot table and customize it. 1. What are Excel Pivot Tables  A pivot table  turns  your data into report format. Here is a sample Pivot table from sales data, showing  total sales by region. 2. How to Create a Pivot Table We will use 2019 sales data of a fictional company. This data contains 466 rows of sales information in columns – Month, Salesman, Region, Product, No.  Customers, Net Sales, Profit / Loss. Here is a preview of our data. To create a pivot table showing  totals sales by region , follow these steps. Select any cell in the data. Go to Insert ribbon and click “Pivot Table” button.  Click ok on the next screen. You will be taken a new spreadsheet with  blank Pivot Table canvas.   Here, using the Pivot...