Whether you need to build an Excel-based dashboard, perform serious data analysis, or summarize data for a personal project, Pivot Tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel's dataExcel'sis and Business Intelligence (BI) toolkit.

With just a few clicks of the mouse (and no complicated formulas!), you can quickly and easily build the reports, dashboards, and charts that help you to summarize, analyze, interpret, and understand your data, which in turn helps you to spot trends and get answers to the critical questions on which you base your critical business decisions.

Pivot Tables have a reputation for being complicated and scary, but by attending this training, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to use and create them.

Objectives:

• Use Pivot Tables to turn raw data into meaningful and insightful reports and summaries.
• Structure your raw data in the right way.
• Design and format your Pivot Table reports to be easily read and understood.
• Summarize your data in different ways, including totals, counts, and percentages.
• Convert a Pivot Table into a chart.

Why should you attend?

People everywhere use Pivot Tables to summarize and understand their data, from global enterprises to early-stage startups and small businesses. Learning how to create Pivot Tables is one of the must-have skills for anyone who needs to use Excel to build reports and summaries quickly. This training will provide you with a solid foundation that you can use to create your pivot tables and reports.

What you'll learn?

• Usyou'lls: Why and when you should use a Pivot Table
• Your raw data - do's and don'ts do' in Pivot Table with a few mouse clicks
• Different ways to summarize your data - total, count, and percent
• Apply formatting to a Pivot Table to make it easy to read and understand
• Display Pivot Table data in alphabetical or numerical order
• Represent the Pivot Table data as a chart/graph
• How to update a Pivot Table when the source data changes

Who should attend?

You should attend this training if you need to use Excel to build reports and summaries quickly or if you want to learn how to create Pivot Tables to improve your knowledge of Excel. 

You don't have to be proficient in the use of Excel to attend. You can follow along if you can create basic worksheets, copy and paste, and apply basic formatting to cells. The training will be delivered using the latest version of Excel for Windows, although much of the functionality is available in earlier versions of Excel.