Excel PivotTables and PivotCharts: Your Visual Blueprint for Creating Dynamic Spreadsheets 2nd Edition

Master two of the most powerful features of Excel

Even if you use Excel all the time, you may not be up to speed on two of Excel's most useful features. PivotTable and PivotChart turn long lists of unreadable data into dynamic, easy-to-read tables and charts that highlight the information you need most; you can tweak results with a click or easily fuse data from several sources into one document. Now you can learn how to tap these powerful Excel tools with this practical guide.

Using a series of step-by-step tutorials and easy-to-follow screenshots, this book shows you in a visual way how to create and customize PivotTables and PivotCharts, use them to analyze business data, and ultimately achieve more with less work.

• Explains the benefits PivotTables and PivotCharts, two powerful features of Excel that allow users to create dynamic spreadsheets
• Covers creating and customizing, analyzing business data, building custom calculations, linking to external data sources (including Access databases, Word tables, Web pages, XML data, SQL Server databases, and OLAP cubes), creating macros to automate tasks, and more
• Uses step-by-step tutorials and easy-to-follow screenshots, a "learn by seeing" approach for visual learners

Practical, visual, and packed with content, this is the book you need to ramp up your Excel skills with PivotTables and PivotCharts.

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Paul McFedries is a full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and he has more than 70 books to his credit. Paul's books have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles Teach Yourself VISUALLY Excel 2010; Excel 2010 Visual Quick Tips; Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows 7; and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Office 2008 for Mac. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com and twitter.com/wordspy), a Web site that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language. Paul invites you to drop by his personal Web site at www.mcfedries.com or to follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/paulmcf.

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HOW TO USE THIS BOOK.

1 UNDERSTANDING PIVOTTABLES AND PIVOTCHARTS.

Understanding Data Analysis.

Introducing the PivotTable.

Learn PivotTable Benefits.

Learn When to Use PivotTables.

Explore PivotTable Features.

Introducing the PivotChart.

2 BUILDING A PIVOTTABLE.

Prepare Your Worksheet Data.

Create a Table for a PivotTable Report.

Build a PivotTable from an Excel Table.

Build a PivotTable from an Excel Range.

Recreate an Existing PivotTable.

3 MANIPULATING YOUR PIVOTTABLE.

Turn the PivotTable Field List On and Off.

Customize the PivotTable Field List.

Select PivotTable Items.

Remove a PivotTable Field.

Refresh PivotTable Data.

Display the Details Behind PivotTable Data.

Create a Chart from PivotTable Data.

Enable the Classic PivotTable Layout.

Add Multiple Fields to the Row or Column Area.

Add Multiple Fields to the Data Area.

Add Multiple Fields to the Report Filter.

Publish a PivotTable to a Web Page.

Convert a PivotTable to Regular Data.

Delete a PivotTable.

4 CHANGING THE PIVOTTABLE VIEW.

Move a Field to a Different Area.

Change the Order of Fields within an Area.

Change the Report Layout.

Sort PivotTable Data with AutoSort.

Move Row and Column Items.

Group Numeric Values.

Group Date and Time Values.

Group Text Values.

Hide Group Details.

Show Group Details.

Ungroup Values.

5 FILTERING A PIVOTTABLE.

Apply a Report Filter.

Change the Report Filter Layout.

Filter Row or Column Items.

Filter PivotTable Values.

Hide Items in a Row or Column Field.

Use Search to Display Multiple Items.

Show Hidden Items in a Row or Column Field.

Filter a PivotTable with a Slicer.

Connect a PivotTable to an Existing Slicer.

Connect a Slicer to Multiple PivotTables.

6 CUSTOMIZING PIVOTTABLE FIELDS.

Rename a PivotTable Field.

Rename a PivotTable Item.

Format a PivotTable Cell.

Apply a Numeric Format to PivotTable Data.

Apply a Date Format to PivotTable Data.

Apply a Conditional Format to PivotTable Data.

Show Items with No Data.

Exclude Items from a Report Filter.

Repeat Item Labels in Fields.

7 CREATING A PIVOTCHART.

Understanding PivotChart Limitations.

Create a PivotChart from a PivotTable.

Create a PivotChart beside a PivotTable.

Create a PivotChart from an Excel Table.

Move a PivotChart to another Sheet.

Filter a PivotChart.

Change the PivotChart Type.

Sort the PivotChart.

Add PivotChart Titles.

Move the PivotChart Legend.

Display a Data Table with the PivotChart.

8 SETTING PIVOTTABLE OPTIONS.

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