May 2014
Beginner
360 pages
7h 37m
English
Content preview from Excel Data Analysis For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 4
Working with PivotTables
In This Chapter
Cross-tabulating with pivot tables
Setting up with the PivotTable Wizard
Fooling around with your pivot tables
Customizing the look and feel of your pivot tables
Perhaps the most powerful analytical tool that Excel provides is the PivotTable command, with which you can cross-tabulate data stored in Excel lists. A cross-tabulation summarizes information in two (or more) ways: for example, sales by product and state, or sales by product and month.
Cross-tabulations, performed by pivot tables in Excel, are a basic and very interesting analytical technique that can be tremendously helpful when you’re looking at data that your business or life depends on. Excel’s cross-tabulations are neater than you might at first expect. For one thing, they aren’t static: You can cross-tabulate data and then re-cross-tabulate and re-cross-tabulate it again simply by dragging buttons. What’s more, as your underlying data changes, you can update your cross-tabulations simply by clicking a button.
Looking at Data from Many Angles
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