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Hi Vanessa
Thanks for your question.
You must select a cell within the list you are creating your PivotTable from before creating the PivotTable.
Go to Data - PivotTable or Pivotchart report and follow through the 3 steps in the wizard to create your PivotTable.
thanks
Amanda
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If you have lots of data in a spreadsheet, you may find that it is easier to read if you highlight some of the values. This is Conditional Formatting and here's how to use it:
1) Select the data you wish to apply the format to and click Conditional Formatting
2) A list of options will then appear, from this list, choose the format you wish to display e.g. find all cells with a value less than 0
3) Excel will then highlight all of these cells
To remove this: select the highlighted cells, click the drop down on the Conditional Formatting icon and select Clear Rules from selected cells.
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