PIVOTBY is great for analysis, but PivotTables still have the edge when formatting needs to adapt to data changes.

The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. Once you select the portion of your spreadsheet that contains the target data, then define it as a ...

Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

Excel's PivotTable feature lets you organize and summarize data into a meaningful report format without changing the data set. Beyond reporting, PivotTables offer a quick and easy way to analyze ...

Learn how you can combine PivotChart and Slicer objects to create an easy-to-use and dynamic data summarization. Excel 2010 introduced Slicers, which you can use to filter PivotTable and PivotChart ...

At the sheet level, conditional running totals require focused expressions, but an Excel PivotTable requires only a few field swaps. Susan Harkins shows you how. An expression to return a simple ...

PivotTables can do more than you think, from splitting reports by category to calculating unique counts and percentage growth ...

Q. I have a large spreadsheet that includes company codes with multiple group segments for each company. Many of the group segments within the same company are repeated. Is there a way to quickly ...

Q. I usually like Excel PivotTables, but because they don’t allow me to do certain things, such as delete cells or insert new columns or rows, I’m wondering if there is a reasonable alternative? A.