excel course in london - Pivot Tables/ Charts

Dear Amy

Sorry for the delay in responding!!

The main purpose of creating Pivot Table is to summarize your data. Although the same result can be achieved via Auto filters but the main advantage of Pivot Tables is that it can perform various functions such as Sum, Count Min, Max and Average and is Interactive which means that you can simply drag the column headings to the appropriate areas in the Pivot and it does summarizes that data. You have the option of displaying the fields' headings either as rows or columns!!

The answer to your question about what type of data do you require to create a Pivot Table is that it doesn't really matter!! You should have some numeric data to perform calculations.

You can create a chart based on the pivot data by a simple click!!
Please follow these steps to create the Pivot table.

Step 1. Click inside the table that the Pivot Table is to be based upon.

Step 2. Select [b]Data > Pivot Table and PivotChart Wizard