basic training excel - What can a pivot table be used for?

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Wed 8 Nov 2006, 10:13 Delegate Howard said...

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What can a pivot table be used for?

What is a pivot table? and what can it be used for?

Thu 9 Nov 2006, 10:19 Trainer Richard said...

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A PivotTable report is an interactive table that quickly combines and compares large amounts of data. You can rotate its rows and columns to see different summaries of the source data, and you can display the details for areas of interest.

Use a PivotTable report when you want to analyze related totals, especially when you have a long list of figures to sum and you want to compare several facts about each figure.

An example would be looking into a sales report, broken down by Region, Product, Sales Person or Quarterly Totals. You are able to expand and contract the detail of each area to focus on the detail that is most important to you.

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