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Thu 17 Jul 2008, 15:49 Delegate Leigh said...

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What is a pivot table

Thu 17 Jul 2008, 17:05 Trainer Pete said...

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Hi Leigh,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoyed your course today.

In answer to your question: A pivot table is a summarisation of data which can be manipulated and viewed from different angles, if you have a large database and wish to summarise it; extracting either Totals, Averages, Highest or Lowest values etc, you could use a Pivot Table. To create a Pivot table follow the menu command Data, Pivot Table and Pivot Chart Report, follow the Wizard's commands/suggestions to arrive at a grid which then allows you to place your field headings in the appropriate places. Your Pivot table will then be created.

I hope that has helped, regards Pete

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