When you compile data in a list, you often need to answer questions such as “How much revenue did the West Coast office generate last month?” or “What was the average number of customers served at ...

A pivot table in Microsoft Excel reorganizes data quickly into a meaningful report, and it’s easy to use! Before Microsoft Excel added the PivotTable tool, you had to use summarizing functions and ...

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 ...

PivotTable-aware conditional formatting ties rules to fields, so visuals persist even when you refresh, filter, or change ...

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 ...