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Frank has attended:
Excel Intermediate course
Excel Advanced course

Pivot Tables

What advantages are there for using pivot tables over regular tables?

RE: Pivot Tables

Hi Frank, thanks for your query. Pivot Tables are incredibly powerful summarising and analysing tools. The quickest win is structural flexibility, providing the ability to generate new table structures and mathematical analyses within seconds. To do this using static tables takes far longer and is much more prone to error.

Hope this helps,

Anthony

Sun 12 Jun 2011: Automatically marked as resolved.


 

Excel tip:

Hide data in Excel Worksheets

Let's say you have some data in cell 'C5' you would like to hide from the casual viewer.

Click cell 'C5' to select it.

Click the 'Format' menu, select 'Cells'. When the 'Format Cells' dialogue box opens, click the 'Numbers' tab (if necessary), then select 'Custom' from the 'Category' list.

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