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Excel pivot tables are very useful and powerful feature of MS Excel. They can be used to summarize, analyze, explore and present your data.

In plain English, it means, you can take the sales data with columns like salesman, region and productwise revenues and use pivot tables to quickly find out how products are performing in each region. In this tutorial, we will learn what is a pivot table and how to make a pivot table using excel.

Click here to see a video tutorial of making pivot tables in excel | One more Pivot Table Video Tutorial Example uses of Pivot Tables As I said before pivot tables are very powerful and useful. There are numerous uses of pivot tables that we can talk about them until Christmas. Here are some example uses of pivot tables: Summarizing data like finding the average sales for each region for each product from a product sales data table. Listing unique values in any column of a table [learn more] Creating a pivot report with sub-totals and custom formats Making a dynamic pivot chart Filtering, sorting, drilling-down data in the reports without writing one formula or macro. Transposing data i.e. moving rows to columns or columns to rows. [learn more] Linking data sources outside excel and be able to make pivot reports out of such data. Excel Pivot Table Tutorial: How to create your first pivot table

Let us make your first pivot table. We will use example data in the following format. Download the excel pivot tables tutorial workbook with the data.

Step 1: Select the data Select the data range from which you want to make the pivot table. Step 2: Go to Insert ribbon and click on new Pivot table option To insert a new pivot table in to your spreadsheet, go to Insert ribbon and click pivot table icon and select pivot table option. Step 3: Select the target cell where you want to place the pivot table. For starters, select New worksheet. Excel will display a pivot table wizard where you can specify the pivot table target location etc. Select New worksheet option and your pivot table will be placed in newly created worksheet. Step 4: Make your first pivot report The pivot report UI is very intuitive and sandbox like. To make powerful analysis, all you have to do is drag and drop fields in to the pivot table grid area. In excel 2007, you can also control this by using the Pivot table panel. The pivot report is divided in to header and body sections. You can drag and drop the fields you want in each area. The body itself contains three parts. Rows, Columns and Cells. You can use any fields in these areas too. For the above sample data, I have set this criteria:

And the outcome is this pivot report.

It might be a bit difficult to understand how this works. But believe me, if you have seen any reports or worked with any other reporting systems, then the idea of pivot tables, pivot reports and pivot charts becomes quite simple to you.

You can use the excel pivot table features to make a more complicated pivot report like this in no time.

Some useful tips on Excel Pivot Tables You can apply any formatting to the pivot tables. MS Excel has some very good pivot table formats (and they are better in Excel 2007 and 2010). You can easily change the pivot table summary formulas. Right click on pivot table and select summarize data by option. You can also apply conditional formatting on pivot tables although you may want to be a bit careful as pivot tables scale in size depending on the data. Whenever the original data from which pivot tables are constructed, just right click on the pivot table and select Refresh Data option. If you want to drill down on a particular summary value, just double click on it. Excel will create a new sheet with the data corresponding to that pivot report value. (This is extremely useful) Making a pivot chart from a pivot table is very simple. Just click on the pivot chart icon from tool bar or Options ribbon area and follow the wizard. More Pivot Table Tips & Tricks Download the excel pivot tables tutorial workbook and practice yourself

Click here to download the excel pivot tables tutorial workbook. [ 2007-2013 version of tutorial here] The workbook has sample data and one pivot table in it. You can play with it to learn more. Checkout the video tutorial to make excel pivot tables Click here to see a video tutorial of making pivot tables in excel | One more Pivot Table Video Tutorial Share your experiences of using pivot tables Tell me how you use pivot tables, your favorite tricks using comments. Join Excel School & Learn Pivot Tables, Data Analysis & More I run an online Excel training program called as Excel School where you can learn Pivot tables, data analysis, dashboard reporting, charting, formulas and so much more in a step-by-step fashion. Learn more about Excel School.

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Share on emailShare on printShare on facebookShare on deliciousShare on stumbleupon Written by Chandoo Tags: Analytics, data, data processing, downloads, Excel Howtos, Learn Excel, pivot charts, pivot tables, spreadcheats, spreadsheets, tutorials Home: Chandoo.org Main Page ? Doubt: Ask an Excel Question 120 Responses to Excel Pivot Tables Tutorial : What is a Pivot Table and How to Make one

Glen Feechan says: August 20, 2009 at 5:00 pm Nice clear article, good to see someone else trumpeting the value of pivot tables. If you read this and are still not sure, you can learn by video: Excel 2003 version Excel 2007 version It is well worth making the effort to learn pivot tables you wont look back once you do. Reply

priyanka says: May 2, 2012 at 1:24 am thanks for solving querries Reply Pivot Table in Excel - Video Tutorial | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org says: August 25, 2009 at 9:36 am [...] week we have posted a simple to understand excel pivot table tutorial here. Today I am going to supplement the tutorial with a 15 second video tutorial on Making excel [...] Reply

Microsoft Excel Table Tips and Tricks - Learn Data Tables and Become a Data God | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org says: October 13, 2009 at 9:12 am [...] good is a bunch of data when you can analyze it? That is where Pivot tables come in to picture [pivot table tutorial]. Thankfully, you dont need to do much. Just click a button and your table goes to pivot [...] Reply

Andrea says: November 5, 2009 at 6:02 am Dear Expert, How can I replace the Sum of to Different of in a pivot table? I have a set of data that consists of both 2007 and 2008 sales, however these info were in one same column that name period. Could you kindly show me the formula that I can add into the Pivot table to show the comparisions? Thanks a zillion Reply

Meikel says: November 16, 2009 at 5:35 pm Hi Chandoo, Well structured and presented as usual. Im doing a lot with pivot tables. What I am looking for is a tool where you can change the data directly in the pivot table. Do you have an idea? br, Meikel Reply

louis says: November 17, 2009 at 5:34 pm I want to apply the same type of pivot table to a different file I get each month (but same format and type of data). Can I save a custom pivot table format ? (excel 2003) Thanks

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PowerPivotQ says: June 27, 2013 at 2:24 pm I had the same question and posted it here: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/711089templates-formatting-piovt-tables.html#post3507642 by any chance, you got your reply? Reply What is Excel PowerPivot and How to use it? - Review of Microsoft PowerPivot Addin | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org says: January 8, 2010 at 9:24 am [...] means anyone can analyze and visualize millions of rows of data using powerpivot. It is like pivot tables on SUMPRODUCT (oh, I could totally say steroids, but who wants a cliche on a [...] Reply

srikanth says: January 17, 2010 at 5:35 pm hi chandoo, thanks. it was very simple and clear. really it is very usefull. it was well presented. great job. Reply

TMS says: January 18, 2010 at 3:39 pm Thanks for posting this info. Ive been struggling with pivot tables for some time now and this has cleared up a lot of my confusion. Nice job. Reply

Chandoo says: January 18, 2010 at 7:02 pm @Louis yes, you can save custom pivot formats

@Srikant & TMS: thank you very much. I am happy you liked this tutorial. Reply Excel Pivot Table tricks & tips | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org says: January 27, 2010 at 11:40 am [...] (If you are not familiar with basic pivot tables, you should check out this excellent pivot tables tutorial) [...] Reply Profit & Loss Reporting using Microsoft Excel - Accounting & Excel - Part 1 of 6 | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Learn Excel Online - Chandoo.org says: February 4, 2010 at 9:19 am [...] multiple locations divided into various regions. It is recommended that you be familiar with the concept of pivot tables and also familiar with basic accounting [...] Reply

Jeremiah Minifield says: February 4, 2010 at 6:36 pm Will this cover Excel 97 and Excel 2002? Reply

Chandoo says: February 9, 2010 at 9:46 pm @Jeremiah The steps are more or less similar in Excel 2002. I dont remember Excel 97 so cant say for it. Reply MS-Excel Tipps fr Projektleiter says: March 3, 2010 at 11:53 am [...] Excel pivot tutorial wer es einmal begriffen hat, benutzt Pivot Tabellen stndig [...] Reply

31 Excel Tutorials Learn and Be Awesome in Excel | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Learn Excel Online Chandoo.org says: March 11, 2010 at 1:01 pm [...] 23: Introduction to Excel Pivot Tables [...] Reply

payal says: March 26, 2010 at 5:33 pm I have two data point per condition, is it possible to display both the data points either bewlo one another or next to each other in a pivot table. If so, how would i do it. Since right now I can just display average, count or sum but not the actual raw data points. Also can we have error bar in the pivot chart for a bar graph? thanks for the help Reply

baidi says: March 31, 2010 at 4:50 am mantataf excelnya.. top markotop Reply Find Quarterly Totals from Monthly Data [SUMPRODUCT Formula] | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Learn Excel Online - Chandoo.org says: April 29, 2010 at 12:46 am [...] can make a pivot report from the data and then group dates in that to find totals by [...] Reply

michaelG says: May 6, 2010 at 1:23 am My question is:

I have a body of data that I have placed in a pivot table.. I understand how to manipulate it to shpow me eithert the min, sum, average etccc of the data however I dont know how I can have the pivot table express 2 different options like the min and the average?? in the corresponding chart i would like to see the min amount in each period however I would like for the graph to also show me the average in each period for example the min would be displayed as a bar chart and the avg would be a line running through, can anyone help me with this?? Reply

Chandoo says: May 10, 2010 at 1:19 am @MichaelG: Just add the value field again to the value field area of pivot table. Now set value field settings to change the summary type to average for first value and min for second value. That is all. Reply

Deep says: May 12, 2010 at 9:28 am gr8 Reply Percentage Difference From One Year to Prior Year Empower Your Business with Excel says: May 17, 2010 at 9:20 pm [...] Chandoos Pivot Table Tutorial: http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/08/19/excel-pivot-tables-tutorial/ [...] Reply

Hemant says: August 19, 2010 at 9:13 am i want to learn excel, best and also focus on audit and accounts point of view so pls suggest me what should i do? is there any simple but strong book or any other on line site for it.

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Chandoo says: August 24, 2010 at 2:45 am @Hemant: Try one of these books Excel Accounting books PS: I have not read any of them Reply

Shefeeque K A says: August 27, 2010 at 10:50 am Its a great skill to present these complicated thing in such an easy way. I tried a lots of Ebooks from online non of them give me currect use of pivot table but ur presentation helped me a lot. Good Job. Thanks a lot. Reply

rajesh says: August 30, 2010 at 6:46 am how to create pivot table,macros, vlookups with examples please send Reply

Glen Feechan says: August 30, 2010 at 8:56 am In reply to Rajesh: I recently posted the following post that has links to video tutorials on pivot tables, vlookups amd macros: Top 5 Tips to make Excel Spreadsheets work for you I hope theyre helpful.

Reply Remove duplicates & sort a list using Pivot Tables | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: September 27, 2010 at 11:06 am [...] Introduction to Pivot Tables Tutorial [...] Reply

6tel says: October 10, 2010 at 11:52 pm Excellent information! My congratulations on this post. However, I was wondering how to edit a pivot table, because Im having troubles on a pivot table I created four days ago My pivot table is doing just fine (its a list of people to an event Im organizing), but Id like to add the information of a column I forgot to include days ago. This pivot table has the people whos most likely to come in a row category named Yes, and the ones that are most likely not coming on a row category named No. The pivot table shows the results of these two categories (final add of yes and no, both separately and altogether), and the names of each people on the yes and no category, but Id like to add their e-mail information just beside the name of the person whos coming and not coming without messing up the final total of the yes and no adding I tried editing all the conventional way (dragging and dropping the e-mail tag on the pivot table I once did), but it says I cant overwrite (?) a pivot table with another pivot table (when I say overwrite I mean some verb that sounds like it but Im not sure My Excel software launches these alerts in spanish, since english is not my native language). I also tried dragging the e-mail tag to other parts of the pivot table but final result is not the one Im looking for. Can anyone please help me? Thanks in advance. Reply

John says: October 12, 2010 at 12:44 pm Hi 6tel, Add the email column to the source table, this way Name Coming email John Yes John@gmail.com

Ana Yes Ana@gmail.com Will Yes Will@gmail.com Albert No Albert@gmail.com Susan Yes Susan@gmail.com And then include the email column in the Pivot Table (in the Row Labels area) You will have a summary report like this one Row Labels Count of Name No 1 Albert@mm.com 1 Yes 4 Ana@mm.com 1 John@mm.com 1 Susan@mm.com 1 Will@mm.com 1 Grand Total 5 Give a look at this screen I captured for you http://www.excelcream.com/images/helpingothers/PivotTableAddField.jpg Let me know if this helped you? Reply

Kathleen says: November 1, 2012 at 4:22 pm I still dont know how to create a pivot table and noone will help me Reply

6tel says: October 14, 2010 at 4:19 pm Wonderful, John. Muchas gracias! Reply

John Franco says: October 14, 2010 at 4:55 pm

You are welcome! Reply

John says: October 15, 2010 at 8:45 am Very nice tutorial. Your article along with a video I saw on YouTube [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVa7PIDfi5A ] has now made me a champion of pivot tables! Reply

Top10Lists says: October 26, 2010 at 12:30 am This is a great tutorial with nice graphic to visualize the whole process. I would like to complement this post by pointing you to some great videos that teach you Excel pivot tables: http://www.squidoo.com/excel-pivot-tables Hope this helps! Reply

Anita says: October 29, 2010 at 1:51 am Great tutorial. Very precise & easy to understand. Thank you Chandoo. Reply

Jeremy says: October 29, 2010 at 7:54 am Excellent tutorial. I supplemented this to the video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVa7PIDfi5A .. learned PivotTables in less than 30 mins after struggling for over a week! Reply

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November 11, 2010 at 9:48 pm I want to prepare a pivot table from data in an excel spreadsheet. The data table lists activities in Col. A and dates for each of the activities in 2-set columns for each project across the sheet. I want to be able to make a pivot table which will enable me to list activities and projects corresponding to each date. How can I do this? Will you be able to show me how to if I send you the spreadsheet by email? Reply

GVK says: November 18, 2010 at 11:10 am Chandu sir, You have very clearly explanined the pivot tables concept. And, it is very easy learn.I got the confident with one example that you have given, that I can do big things with data pilots. Thank you sir. Reply An Excel Dashboard to Visualize 10,007 Comments [Dashboard Tutorial] | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: November 25, 2010 at 1:26 am [...] have used pivot tables, SUMPRODUCT, SUMIFS, INDEX+MATCH, VLOOKUP formulas to process the [...] Reply Show Top 10 Values in Dashboards using Pivot Tables | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: December 1, 2010 at 10:18 am [...] Select your data & insert a pivot table (tutorial here). [...] Reply Make Dynamic Dashboards using Excel 2010 [Video Tutorial & FREE Download Workbook] | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: December 8, 2010 at 8:36 am [...] this excellent pivot tables tutorial & watch the video on pivot [...]

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rediet says: February 27, 2011 at 4:54 am thank u for the useful information Reply

Shalini says: March 2, 2011 at 1:45 pm Hi, I am trying to use Pivot and i need the count of a field status (which has options sich as Filled, Offered, Will Hire, Will not Hire, On Hold Positions), now i need a count of these Status under different departments however I dont want to include the Will Not Hire and On Hold numbers in the total, can that be done. Reply

Chandoo says: March 2, 2011 at 3:41 pm @Shalini.. Set up the pivot table with departments in row label area and status in column area, and dropping names in value field to show counts. Now, just filter-out the status codes you do not want by applying filters on column labels. Reply

Jack Wilsons says: April 2, 2011 at 6:56 am Here is a nice explanation of a pivot table. You might take a look too. http://books.zkoss.org/wiki/ZK_Pivottable_Essentials/Quick_Start/Concept Reply What are Pivot Table Report Filters and How to use them? | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: April 20, 2011 at 8:59 am

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Mohamed Mahfouz says: April 22, 2011 at 3:40 pm Thank you for your help very nice site Reply

Dave Zachritz says: May 6, 2011 at 3:14 pm Thanks for making such a great site with lots of neat tricks. Im sorry if this has been covered before, but I couldnt find it. Ive got a speadsheet that has 5 columns of activity-type codes as text data. Column A will always have data, B will usually have data, C sometimes, D rarely and E almost never. Any of the fields can have one of about 15 different activity-type codes in it. Each time I add a column to the column labels the counts get more and more complicated because it seems to want to add in all of the possibilities of blank cells as well. It doesnt matter which column my activities come from, I just want a count of each activity type from the range Column A Column E. It seems like this should be doable and simple, but Im stumped. Reply

Jatin says: May 7, 2011 at 6:07 am Hii 2 all, an anyone tell me ho eto use pivot table to show two data fieled (with their individual sum) & pivot also show their differences. Regards Jatin

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Hui... says: May 7, 2011 at 6:43 am @Jatin Have a look at Chandoos http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/08/19/excel-pivot-tables-tutorial/ Reply

Hui... says: May 7, 2011 at 6:47 am @Dave Zachritz You can use Countif eg: =COUNTIF(A:E,Cat) will count how many times Cat is in Column A to E =COUNTIF(A:E,F5) will count how many times the value in F5 is in Column A to E Reply

Dave Zachritz says: May 10, 2011 at 3:52 pm Thanks, Hui. Thats a good solution, but I need this in a Pivot table. How can I use Countif in that scenario? Reply

Hui... says: May 10, 2011 at 3:56 pm @Dave Add another field to the source of the data and put an IF formula to set a value to 1 when your conditions are met Then count that field in the PT Reply

Andie Nguyen says: May 24, 2011 at 3:40 pm Hi Chandoo, Just love your tutorials! Everything is very easy to understand and follow, well structured and visualized. Thank you! Reply

Sandeep says: June 25, 2011 at 12:12 pm Hey all the tips are too helpful and awesome. Keep the good work for us so that we will not find any problem. Reply

Courtney says: July 12, 2011 at 10:17 pm Hi! This post is great. Is there any way to do a pivot table with lots of text? I have a large excel file of comments from a survey that I would like to sort out. Can excel give me trending information or somehow help me sort the comments? Thanks! Reply

Hemlatha M says: July 15, 2011 at 9:51 am i have to add two colum labels and also grand total . how to create in pivot tables, pls send any example to my mail id varma.hema25@gmail.com Reply Preparing Your Data for a Sales Territory Mapping Project says:

July 15, 2011 at 8:33 pm [...] is beyond the scope for this post. However, you can find a good tutorial on Pivot Tables here or here. Figure 2 vLookup for Zip [...] Reply

Nusrat zahan says: July 20, 2011 at 9:40 am i want to be a expert in excel but how i can be good in excel? can you please help me out? with excel how many operations or work i can do? please tell me. Reply

AJ Labate says: August 20, 2011 at 1:10 am Excellent tutorial. Was able to learn pivot tables in less than 30 minutes. Greatly appreciate this. Reply

k Shankar says: September 9, 2011 at 2:47 am 1) In excel 2007 I am not able to display field adjacent coloumn in pivot table. Ex. Product and description to be displayed to gether as on line then display as qty. This able to do in excel 2003 but not in 2007. 2) Not able to convert xls file to dbf direct saving method in excel 2007. Please help regards shankar Reply

mohamed says: September 16, 2011 at 10:47 am

how to use pivot table & their uses Reply

Manohar says: September 17, 2011 at 4:06 pm Hi Chandoo, I have data written to excel through Java code into the columns say for eg as the shown above i.e. Salesman, Region, Product, Revenues..etc. Is there any means to create the pivot table and pivot chart dynamically through code ? such tat any time i run the java code stores new data to excel sheet and generates the pivot table n pivot chart for that automatically. Further, once the data is written on to excel, can we refresh the pivot table n chart automatically through code ? if yes please suggest OR if there is any means to refresh automatically in excel which updates the pivot table n chart accordingly. Thanks, Manohar Reply

@mit says: October 18, 2011 at 9:33 am thanks for gide line. thanks Reply

TJC says: October 21, 2011 at 4:05 am Thanks Chandoo! This helped me prep for an interview I have tomorrow. Keep up the good work! Reply

supriya kannan says: November 17, 2011 at 4:22 am

hello, I have a data which includes students name, date of joining (year,month and date), fees paid and invoice number. i want to prepare a pivot table which shows me the details like the total number of students joined in each month of every year. Im not able to get it. Can you please help me out. y ID supi.roses@gmail.com Reply Learn Any Area of Excel using these 80 Links | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: December 12, 2011 at 9:00 am [...] Introduction to Excel Pivot Tables [...] Reply

Shekhar adiwal says: December 18, 2011 at 1:23 pm hiii cahndoo i really appreciated u for give the excellent knowledge of excel it will help lots of people like me as i learn from your knowledge i feel very happy thanks for gide line. thanks Reply Best of Chandoo.org 2011 | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: December 30, 2011 at 8:53 am [...] Excel Pivot Table Tutorial 237,003 [...] Reply

Jean-pierre Kabuiku says: January 2, 2012 at 9:03 pm Hello, Jack Wilsons, I liked your April 2, 2011 ZK documentation. God bless you. Reply

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Thanks for the info. I love the catchphrase on the logo. Reply

Brendan says: January 9, 2012 at 1:26 pm Also, the data provided is great. I am taking the expert exam soon, and need something to experiment with. Thanks! Reply

Gina says: February 15, 2012 at 4:39 pm Hi does anyone know how to drill down on a pivot table and instead of the data generating on a new tab, I want the data to be in the same tab as my pivot. e.g. Cell B40. I have a second pivot table in that tab, and when i double click it, i want the drilldown data to be placed immediately after the dilldown data from the first pivot. Is there a way of doing this? Your help is much appreciated! Reply NE Excel Wizards in here? - Platforms and Indicators - Page 2 says: February 20, 2012 at 4:42 pm [...] links that might help Excel Pivot Tables Tutorial : What is a Pivot Table and How to Make one | Chandoo.org Learn Micros Excel Blog Using PowerPivot with Excel 2010 my 2 cents Reply #270 Demystifying Excel Pivot Tables Work Smarter Not Harder says: March 9, 2012 at 10:10 am [...] Great tutorial with practice files http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/08/19/excel-pivot-tables-tutorial/ [...] Reply [...]

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April 6, 2012 at 7:03 pm Hi, I am trying to learn pivot table making adn I came across this website. I followed your instructions. I have 3 columns with student scores in 3 respective tests. I am making a pivot table and pivot chart in EXCEL 2010. Student number may change for each test. However, if I update my existing data columns to include 10 more students, the pivot table and chart do not update the additional values despite clicking refresh many times. The data defines still is what was originally set up. Could you tell me what I am missing out here? Thanks much Art Reply

Hui... says: April 7, 2012 at 1:58 am @Art Unfortunately Pivot Tables do not natively expand as you add data. And Microsoft, I think this is a shortcoming in the Pivot Table model You have 2 options: 1. Select the Pivot Table goto the Pivot Table Tools, Option Tab Select Change Data Source Update the range manually 2. Use a Named Formula to define the Data Source Instead of using a Range as the source for the data use a Named Formula like: =OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,,,COUNTA(Sheet1!$A:$A),COUNTA(Sheet1!$!:$1)) Then as you add data Right Click on the Pivot Table, Refresh Reply

Art says: May 2, 2012 at 2:50 am Thanks, Hui The OFFSET function is really helpful

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Life Line says: April 29, 2012 at 8:12 am how to use pivot table & their uses. Reply

Chomba Chibwe says: May 2, 2012 at 4:28 pm Hai Am new in the use of Pivot tables but am enjoying. How can i have repeated colum labels but with different functions e.g count and sum. see: A B C D withdrawal Deposit Withdrawal Deposit Count Count Sum Sum Reply

prasad says: July 19, 2012 at 3:32 am Great An excellent excel learning.. Thank you Purna prasad

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ko says: July 23, 2012 at 6:41 am @Hui, but when i tried keying the below function =OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,,,COUNTA(Sheet1!$A:$A),COUNTA(Sheet1!$!:$1)) it shows: data source reference is not valid. why is this so? Reply

Hui... says: July 23, 2012 at 8:49 am @Ko Looking at your pasted formula you have =OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,,,COUNTA(Sheet1!$A:$A),COUNTA(Sheet1!$!:$1)) It is either the last Counta which is: COUNTA(Sheet1!$!:$1) Should be : COUNTA(Sheet1!$1:$1) or Sheet1 is the wrong name Reply

Rt says: August 14, 2012 at 5:44 am Hello sir, i want to make the pivot chart in ex.2010 so pls give me the link from where i can understand how to make this chari have no any knowledge about this. Reply How to arrange a data range into a new table based on multiple criteria? says: August 27, 2012 at 9:46 pm

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lazyvba says: August 29, 2012 at 4:59 pm Hello, Thanks for this great site Chandoo. Just to add a (still) missing feature in Excel pivot tables: count of unique elements. I did code some vba to paste to the pivot tables calculates the unique count. http://lazyvba.blogspot.com/2010/11/improve-your-pivot-table-to-count.html Hoping it can help users who want to get unique count quickly, or people who wants to get interested in vba coding for pivots ( lot of fun and possibilities) have a great day. Lazyvba

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Arun Garg says: April 2, 2013 at 6:16 pm Very Nice presentation. Thanks for sharing Reply

Rohit says: April 12, 2013 at 4:37 am Excel file name itself contains all letters of April fool..hahahahhawesoe chandoo and your microsoft friend..@ Reply

Chandoo says: April 12, 2013 at 5:00 am Not just the file name. Even my (imaginary) Microsoft friends name is an anagram for April fool. Reply

irfan says: April 12, 2013 at 8:12 am hi dear, its very helpful to new user. Any one can learn easely from this example. Reply Learn Top 10 Excel Features | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: April 16, 2013 at 9:12 am [...] Introduction to Pivot tables [...] Reply

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Dear Friends, Anyone can you explain me about What is the use of Pivot Tabla and when it will uses Reply Why Pivot Tables are Your Best Friend #Interhacktives says: April 29, 2013 at 7:46 am [...] links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_table http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/08/19/excel-pivottables-tutorial/ http://spreadsheets.about.com/b/2012/06/01/excel-2007-pivot-table-tutorial-2.htm [...] Reply

Poonam Kapoor says: April 29, 2013 at 5:19 pm Pivot tables makes it easy to organize and extract information from a large tables of data without the use of formulas in Excel Reply

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paulos says: May 6, 2013 at 10:22 pm thank you Reply Pivot Table | ChangSu's tech blog says: May 16, 2013 at 8:44 pm [...] Excel Pivot Tables Tutorial : What is a Pivot Table and How to Make one [...]

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Siegfried says: May 28, 2013 at 7:44 am hello, thanks for this tutorial! I was having problem with my pivot table and it was really helpful! great blog about excel! best regards! Reply Need a pivot table 2010 template for practice. Help!! says: June 4, 2013 at 7:43 pm [...] Hi, Have you seen the ExcelIsFun videos: Office 2010 Class #36: Excel PivotTables Pivot Tables 15 examples (Data Analysis) YouTube In the description there is a link to where you can get the files. Also maybe try this tutorial on Chandoo.org, which includes a sample workbook: Excel Pivot Tables Tutorial : What is a Pivot Table and How to Make one | Chandoo.org Learn Micros [...] Reply

Pradeep D says: June 4, 2013 at 10:07 pm Hi, I am trying to add conditional formatting to a pivot table and am getting an error Cannot apply a conditional format to a range that has cells outside of a PivotTable data region. Make sure that all the cells are in your selection are inside the PivotTable data region.. I want to enter the emp# in O1 and based I want to highlight the complete row/record in the pivot table. Data is in the same sheet from $A:$K and pivot table is at N4. Can someone please help me on this? Thanks and regards, Pradeep D Reply

Gil Michelini says: June 26, 2013 at 6:17 pm THANK YOU! Now I understand pivot tables!

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Nilesh says: July 18, 2013 at 1:12 pm Thank you so much Chandoo. Its a great site to learn Pivot online for a bigginer. The success of this site is in giving a feeling that pivot is quite simple to work on and use. Great job. thank you so much. cheers. Reply

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Muneca says: August 9, 2013 at 6:14 pm Anyone have a good work around to the problem of not being able to use Pivot tables in a shared document. I built a spreadsheet where 5 different locations are entering data but we cant use pivot unless we un-share the document first which defeats the purpose. Reply

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