Use Microsoft 365 Excel and Excel 2021 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes: take control of your data and your business! Even if you've never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their flexibility and analytical power— including important recent improvements in Microsoft 365 Excel. Drawing on more than 30 years of cutting-edge Excel experience, MVP Bill Jelen (“MrExcel”) shares practical “recipes” for solving real business problems, expert insights for avoiding mistakes, and advanced tips and tricks you'll find nowhere else. By reading this book, you will: Master easy, powerful ways to create, customize, change, and control pivot tables Transform huge datasets into clear summary reports Instantly highlight your most profitable customers, products, or regions Use the data model and Power Query to quickly analyze disparate data sources Create powerful crosstab reports with new dynamic arrays and Power Query Build geographical pivot tables with 3D Maps Construct and share state-of-the-art dynamic dashboards Revamp analyses on the fly by dragging and dropping fi elds Build dynamic self-service reporting systems Share your pivot tables with colleagues Create data mashups using the full Power Pivot capabilities in modern Excel versions Generate pivot tables using either VBA on the Desktop or Typescript in Excel Online Save time and avoid formatting problems by adapting reports with GetPivotData Unpivot source data so it's easier to work with Use new Analyze Data artificial intelligence to create pivot tables

PivotTables may be Excel's most powerful feature, but Microsoft has estimated that only 15% of Excel users take advantage of them. That's because PivotTables (and their companion feature, PivotCharts) have a reputation for being difficult to learn. Not any more! In this book, Excel legends Bill Jelen ("MrExcel") and Michael Alexander teach PivotTables and PivotCharts step-by-step, using realistic business scenarios that any Excel user can intuitively understand. Jelen and Alexander go far beyond merely explaining PivotTables and PivotCharts: they present practical "recipes" for solving a wide range of business problems. Drawing on more than 30 combined years of Excel experience, they provide tips and tricks you won't find anywhere else, and show exactly how to sidestep common mistakes. Coverage includes: " Creating PivotTables, customizing them, and changing the way you view them " Performing calculations within PivotTables " Using PivotCharts and other visualizations " Analyzing multiple data sources with PivotTables " Sharing PivotTables with others " Working with and analyzing OLAP data " Making the most of Excel 2010's powerful new PowerPivot feature " Using Excel 2010's Slicer to dynamically filter PivotTables " Enhancing PivotTables with macros and VBA code This book is part of the new MrExcel Library series, edited by Bill Jelen, world-renowned Excel expert and host of the enormously popular Excel help site, MrExcel.com. Teaches PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Excel 2010's new PowerPivot feature through real-world scenarios that make intuitive sense to users at all levels Includes proven PivotTable recipes for instant on-the-job results Helps Excel users avoid common pitfalls and mistakes Part of the brand-new MrExcel Library series, edited by Excel legend Bill Jelen

Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen (MrExcel) and Michael Alexander help you crunch data from any source with Excel 2019 pivot tables. Use Excel 2019 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes instead of hours, to take control of your data and your business. Even if you’ve never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their remarkable flexibility and analytical power–including valuable improvements in Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365. Drawing on more than 45 combined years of Excel experience, Bill Jelen and Michael Alexander offer practical “recipes” for solving real business problems, help you avoid common mistakes, and present tips and tricks you’ll find nowhere else. By reading this book, you will: • Master easy, powerful ways to create, customize, change, and control pivot tables • Control all future pivot tables using new pivot table defaults • Transform huge data sets into clear summary reports • Instantly highlight your most profitable customers, products, or regions • Use Power Query to quickly import, clean, shape, and analyze disparate data sources • Build geographical pivot tables with 3D Map • Construct and share state-of-the-art dynamic dashboards • Revamp analyses on the fly by dragging and dropping fields • Build dynamic self-service reporting systems • Share your pivot tables with colleagues • Create data mashups using the full Power Pivot capabilities of Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365 • Automate pivot tables with macros and VBA • Save time by adapting reports with GetPivotData • Discover today’s most useful pivot table tips and shortcuts

PivotTables may be Excel's most powerful feature, but Microsoft has estimated that only 15% of Excel users take advantage of them. That's because PivotTables (and their companion feature, PivotCharts) have a reputation for being difficult to learn. Not any more! In this expert tutorial, Excel legends Bill Jelen ("MrExcel") and Michael Alexander teach PivotTables and PivotCharts step-by-step, using realistic business scenarios that any Excel user can intuitively understand. Jelen and Alexander go far beyond merely explaining PivotTables and PivotCharts: they present practical "recipes" for solving a wide range of business problems. Drawing on more than 35 combined years of Excel experience, they provide tips and tricks readers won't find anywhere else, and show exactly how to sidestep common mistakes. Coverage includes: * Creating PivotTables, customizing them, and changing the way you view them * Performing calculations within PivotTables * Using PivotCharts and other visualizations * Analyzing multiple data sources with PivotTables * Sharing PivotTables with others * Working with and analyzing OLAP data * Making the most of Excel 2013's powerful new PowerPivot feature * Using Excel 2013's Slicer to dynamically filter PivotTables * Enhancing PivotTables with macros and VBA code This book is part of the popular MrExcel's Library series, edited by Bill Jelen, world-renowned Excel expert and host of the world-renowned Excel help site, MrExcel.com.

*Practical step-by-step tutorials and business examples guide the reader through everything they need to know about Pivot Tables. *This book focuses specifically on Pivot Tables where most books only include a section on them. Since many users find Pivot Tables very challenging, the single focus of this book offers an accessible but full tutorial on this important part of Excel. *Paul Cornell works at Microsoft and has a long career writing about Office and Excel for Power Users, who are the audience he is now writing for in this new book.

Pivot Tables are a huge growth area. This book gives people the fast-answers they need to succeed The book is far more detailed than any competing title. Readers of this book will be able to do more, and more quickly The book goes beyond basic explanations and includes real-world troubleshooting, performance and security information not provided elsewhere

Learn how to create Pivot Tables quickly and easily with this step-by-step guide! This book contains several basic, intermediate, and advanced Pivot Table examples with screenshots demonstrating how to: Organize and summarize data Format results Insert Pivot Charts Display averages & percentages Group data into predefined ranges Rank results Insert calculated fields In addition to the above, you will also learn how to create and update a basic Dashboard using Pivot Table data. Imagine the time you'll save by not having to search the internet or help files to learn the most practical ways of using one of Microsoft(r) Excel's(r) best features. A great resource for: Business Analysts Data Analysts Financial Analysts Administrative and Support staff