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ResolvedVersion 2003

Eniko has attended:
Excel Intermediate course
Excel Advanced course

Excel

How to use Privot tables

RE: Excel - Pivot tables

Dear Eniko

Thank you for attending Excel Intermediate course!! I hope you enjoyed the course and benefited from it.

The main purpose of creating Pivot Table is to summarize your data. Although the same result can be achieved via Auto filters but the main advantage of Pivot Tables is that it can perform various functions such as Sum, Count Min, Max and Average and is Interactively. This means that you can simply drag the column headings to the appropriate areas in the Pivot and it summarizes that data.

You have the option of displaying the fields' headings either as rows or columns!!

You should have some numeric data to perform calculations.


Please follow these steps to create the Pivot table.

Step 1. Click inside the table that the Pivot Table is to be based upon.

Step 2. Select Data > Pivot Table and PivotChart Wizard

Excel tip:

Convert Text into Number

Some times numbers maybe imported in as text or you maybe concatenating numbers that form a text string that now are treated, because you had to extract them by Text functions

To convert Text into Number just encase the relevant cell reference or formula in the TEXT function. See Converting American Date to European hint

eg TEXT(Ref) or TEXT(formula)

View all Excel hints and tips

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