This book consolidates all the best functionality of pivot tables into one guide that provides you with a meaningful tutorial, offering practical solutions to the problems of everyday. Only the first two chapters, you will create a basic pivot tables, increasing productivity, and generate reports in minutes instead of hours. In the first six chapters, you'll learn how to use pivot tables to quickly highlight your top 10 customers or bottom 5 products in profitability; quickly create analysis comparing sales this period to last period by product or region or both; easily summarize daily transactional data by month or quarter or one year in a few mouse clicks? all without knowing any formulas! At the end of this book, you will actually be a teacher pivot tables, automating pivot tables using VBA, creating pivot tables with external data in OLAP cubes, and even creating dynamic reporting systems so that your managers can answer their own questions with a few mouse clicks . ? Take advantage of the many recipes pivot table ? Create powerful summary reports in seconds ? Developing ad-hoc query tools with ease ? Enhance your Executive Reporting ? Filter reports to top 10 customers or products ? Add dynamic charts to reports ? Quickly summarize daily data by month, quarter, or year Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 Pivot Table Fundamentals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 2 Creating a Basic Pivot Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 3 Customizing the Pivot Table. . . . . . . . . .45 4 Controlling the Way You View Your Pivot Data. .83 5 In Pivot Tables Perform your calculations. . 117 6 Using Pivot Charts and Other Visualizations. . .141 7 Analyze Data Sources differ with Pivot Tables. . 167 8 Sharing Pivot Tables with Others. .189 9 Working with OLAP and Data Analysis. . 201 10 Enhancing Your Pivot Table Reports with Macros. . .215 11 Use VBA Create Pivot Tables. 231 12 Common Pivot Table Issues and Questions. .291 A Finding Pivot Table Commands on the Ribbon.