Pivot Table Data Crunching

8. Using Disparate Data Sources for Your Pivot Table

In this Chapter

Working with Disparate Data Sources 141

Using Multiple Consolidation Ranges 142

The Anatomy of a Multiple Consolidation Range Pivot Table 146

Creating a Pivot Table from an Existing Pivot Table 151

Working with Disparate Data Sources

Until this point, you have been working with one local table located in the worksheet within which you are operating. Indeed, it would be wonderful if every dataset you came across were neatly packed in one easy-to-use Excel table. Unfortunately, the business of data analysis does not always work out that way.

The reality is that some of the data you will encounter will come from disparate data sources—meaning sets of data that are from separate ...