The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. Once you select the portion of your spreadsheet that contains the target data, then define it as a ...

Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

PivotTables can do more than you think, from splitting reports by category to calculating unique counts and percentage growth ...

Excel's PivotTable feature lets you organize and summarize data into a meaningful report format without changing the data set. Beyond reporting, PivotTables offer a quick and easy way to analyze ...

At the sheet level, conditional running totals require focused expressions, but an Excel PivotTable requires only a few field swaps. Susan Harkins shows you how. An expression to return a simple ...

PivotTable-aware conditional formatting ties rules to fields, so visuals persist even when you refresh, filter, or change ...

Learn how you can combine PivotChart and Slicer objects to create an easy-to-use and dynamic data summarization. Excel 2010 introduced Slicers, which you can use to filter PivotTable and PivotChart ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

Q. I usually like Excel PivotTables, but because they don’t allow me to do certain things, such as delete cells or insert new columns or rows, I’m wondering if there is a reasonable alternative? A.

Q. I have a large spreadsheet that includes company codes with multiple group segments for each company. Many of the group segments within the same company are repeated. Is there a way to quickly ...