Excel: Pivot Tables Crash Course
Learn to create Excel Pivot Tables, arrange fields, summarize data as totals, averages or percentages, filter with slicers, add charts and keep your layouts intact.
Speaker
Andy Lanning
Microsoft Office trainer · Computer Software Training, LLC · 25+ years teaching software
Overview
Pivot Tables are one of the strongest tools in Excel's data analysis and business intelligence toolkit, whether you're building a dashboard, doing serious analysis or summarizing data for a small project. This 60-minute Excel Pivot Tables crash course shows you how to use them.
With a few clicks and no complex formulas, you can build reports, dashboards and charts that help you summarize and interpret data, spot trends and answer the questions behind key business decisions.
Pivot Tables have a reputation for being complicated, but you'll see how easy they are to create, customize, filter with slicers and chart.
Why attend: If summarizing data for reports is a frustrating, slow job, this class is for you. Understanding Pivot Tables will save you time and effort every time you need a report. It suits Excel users in accounting, audit, finance, banking, insurance, HR, IT, sales, marketing, logistics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and many other fields.
What’s covered
- Starting a Pivot Table
- Working with the PivotTable task pane
- Adding, moving and deleting fields
- Summarizing data as totals, averages or percentages
- Customizing the Pivot Table view
- Adding a slicer to filter results
- Adding a chart to visualize results
- Tips and tricks to keep Pivot Table layouts in place
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Andy Lanning, owner, trainer, and Chief Nerd of Computer Software Training, LLC. Andy has 25+ years of experience teaching computer software in the corporate and university environments. She teaches basic to advanced levels in most Microsoft Office programs. She is adjunct faculty at Boise State University, since 1994 to present, where she specializes in computer training for the Center for Professional Development. She also travels to teach at company conferences across the U.S. Andy’s background includes corporate training, private training, and freelance data analysis. She has recorded several online training courses for Udemy.com, GoSkills.com, and in her career has delivered hundreds of courses and webinars on a variety of Microsoft topics.
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