Excel

Hi Claudia

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

You can create a pivot table from a list/database in Excel by doing the following:

1. Click inside the list/database.
2. Go to Data - Pivot Table and Pivot Chart Report.
3. Follow the three step wizard.

When you have finished, you can drag and drop fields (column headings) from the Pivot Table Field list (usually on the right hand side of the screen) into the areas of the pivot table (outlined in blue). The only rule of thumb is that fields containing numbers should go into the Data area of the table.

The Microsoft web site has some good tutorials on pivot tables if you are interested in learning more; otherwise we cover pivot tables as part of our Excel Advanced course.

Amanda