Chapter 7. WORKING WITH PIVOTTABLES
Create a PivotTable
Excel offers you much more than a way of keeping track of your data and doing calculations. It also provides tools to analyze your data and thus understand it better so you can make more effective decisions.
One of the most useful tools, the PivotTable, is also one of the least understood. Similar to cross-tabulation in statistics, a PivotTable shows how data is distributed across categories. For example, you can analyze data and display how different products sell by region and by quarter. Alternatively, you can analyze income distribution or consumer preferences by gender and age bracket. PivotTables help you answer questions about your data.
You base PivotTables on lists. Lists are made up ...
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