Pivot Table tutorial for MS Excel 2007 and Excel 2010
Know What Is A Pivot Table?
The Pivot tables are used to summarize, analyze, explore and present
your data. A Pivot table is a way to extract data from a long list of
information and present it in a more meaningful and user friendly
understandable format. For example, lets say that we have the data of
student scores in a spreadsheet, you could turn this into a pivot table,
and then view only the Math scores for each pupil.
Learn How To Create A Pivot Table In Excel 2010
Here are the steps to create a Pivot table in Excel 2010.
Step 1: First of all, please make sure to select the data range for which you want to make the pivot table.
Step 2: Insert the Pivot Table by going to the Insert tab and then clicking the Pivot Table icon.
Step 3: Select the target cells where you want to place the pivot table. For starters, select the New Worksheet option.
Step 4: The new worksheet will open and
you will be able to see the pivot table that you just created, you can
now generate the report from this table and can perform various
operations on this table for better visualization and presentation of
data. Just for example I calculated the sum of all of the selected
cells.
In the right side, you will see the Pivot Table Panel which contains many useful options to work with the Pivot table.
What is New In The Excel 2010 Pivot Table
By way for discussed in the introductory paragraph, Pivot Tables were also
present in Microsoft Excel 2007, lets see what new enhancements have
been made to the Excel 2010 Pivot tables.
1. It includes a new feature called
ShowValues As, right click the Pivot table and choose
Show Values As,
you will see many new options here. It helps you in trying out several
different calculations until you get exactly what you were looking for.
2. It offers many new calculations, almost six new calculations have been added to it.
3. It includes some great visual totals. Visual Totals refer to what
totals should be shown when one or more members are filtered. You can
turn this feature ON of OFF, simply right click the Pivot Table and
choose the
Pivot Table Options option here.
We know In the PivotTable Options window, go to the Tools & Filter tab and check/uncheck the Include filtered items in set totals option to enable/disable it.
Here the enhanced pivot table feature of Excel 2010 add feathers to this great product by Microsoft.
