Creating PivotTables and PivotCharts from Queries
Access 2002 (in Office XP) introduced two very useful new features for tables, queries, and forms—PivotTables and PivotCharts. These are additional views of a table, query, or form that you can design to provide analytical views of your data. These views are built into the objects; they’re not implemented via a separate ActiveX control as was the old and venerable Microsoft Graph feature.
You learned in this chapter that you can build a crosstab query to pivot the values in a column to form dynamic column headings. However, crosstab queries have a major drawback—you can include only one calculated value in the intersection of your row headings and single column heading. PivotTables in Access are ...
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