Lesson 18 Creating Pivot Tables

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Pivot table reports, or pivot tables as they are often called, can help you answer questions about your spreadsheet by analyzing the numerical information in various ways. If you work with spreadsheets with a lot of data, pivot tables can be an extremely useful tool. Pivot table reports give you power because you can quickly find the answer to many different questions, and manipulate your data in many different ways.  In this lesson, you will learn the basics of inserting and working with pivot table reports.2Guevarra Institute of Technology

Why are They Named Pivot Tables?You may be wondering why it is called a pivot table. Basically, pivot tables allow you to pivot, or move, data so that you can produce answers to questions. Once you create a pivot table, you can very easily see what effect pivoting the data has on the spreadsheet information.3Guevarra Institute of Technology

To Create a Pivot Table Report (Part I):Select the cells in your spreadsheet that you want to use in the pivot table report.Select the Insert tab.Click the PivotTable command.Click PivotTable again. Excel selects cells in the actual spreadsheet and the Create PivotTable dialog box opens.Select a table or range is already selected and the Table/Range field shows the range of the selected data. New Worksheet is also selected by default as the place where the report will be placed.Click Existing Worksheet and select a worksheet, if you do not want the pivot table to appear in a new worksheet.Click OK.4Guevarra Institute of Technology

Creating a Pivot Table ReportIf you use the sample spreadsheet to create a pivot table, you can see that the column headings are salesperson, region, account, order amount, and month. When you create a pivot table, each column label in your data becomes a field that can be used in the report. The Field List appears on the right side of the report, while the layout area appears on the left.5Guevarra Institute of Technology

To Create a Pivot Table Report (Part 2):Determine what question you want your pivot table report to answer. For example, using the sample spreadsheet, you might want to know which salesperson sold the greatest dollar amount.Determine the fields that are necessary to answer this question. In this example, salesperson and order amount.Select the check box next to the Salesperson field in the PivotTable Field List. The field will appear in the drag and drop area at the bottom of the field list and in the layout area. The order amount data appears on the right. This is a default setting in Excel – data with numbers will always appear on the right.Select the check box next to the Order Amount field in the PivotTable Field List. The field will appear in the drag and drop area at the bottom of the field list and in the layout area. All of the salesperson data appears on the left side as rows.You can now see the answer to your question in the report on the left.6Guevarra Institute of Technology

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To Add a Report Filter:Select a field in the Field List. In this example, choose Region. By default, it will appear in the Row Labels group.Click and drag Region into the Report Filter section.Release the mouse button. The region appears at the top of the report as a filter.The arrow by the Region fields shows (All). To show just the data for a specific region, click the drop-down arrow and select the region. To see multiple regions, click the Multiple Regions box, select the regions to display, and then, click OK.8Guevarra Institute of Technology

Moving, or Pivoting Data:Click and drag a field from one area to another.9Guevarra Institute of Technology

Release the mouse button to drop the field in the new area. In this example, we move Region from Report Filter to Column Label. The pivot table report will change.10Guevarra Institute of Technology

ORRight-click one of the rows. A menu will appear.Select Move and then select a move option.11Guevarra Institute of Technology

To Create a PivotChartSelect the Pivot Chart command from the Options tab. The Insert Chart dialog box appears.Select the chart you’d like to insert.Click OK. The chart will now appear on the same sheet as the Pivot Table.The information in the chart includes the information in the pivot table, rather than all the original source data.12Guevarra Institute of Technology

ChallengeUse the Company Sales workbook to complete this challenge.Create a pivot table report that calculates the amount each salesperson sold.Filter the report by region.View the data for the salespeople in the North and West region.Who sold the greatest dollar amount in those two regions?13Guevarra Institute of Technology

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