This book consolidates all the best functionality of pivot tables into one guide that provides you with a meaningful tutorial, offering practical solutions to day-to-day problems.

Within just the first 2 chapters, you will be creating basic pivot tables, increasing productivity, and producing reports in minutes instead of hours.

Within the first 6 chapters, you will 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 year in a few mouse clicks–all without knowing any formulas!

By the end of the book, you will truly be a pivot table guru, 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 queries with a few mouse clicks.

• Take advantage of the numerous pivot table recipes

• Create powerful summary reports in seconds

• Build 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 a Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

4              Controlling the Way You View Your Pivot Data . . . . . . . . . . . .83

5              Performing Calculations Within Your Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . 117

6              Using Pivot Charts and Other Visualizations . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

7              Analyzing Disparate Data Sources with Pivot Tables . . . . . . 167

8              Sharing Pivot Tables with Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

9              Working with and Analyzing OLAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

10           Enhancing Your Pivot Table Reports with Macros . . . . . . . . .215

11           Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

12           Common Pivot Table Issues and Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291

A             Finding Pivot Table Commands on the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . .315

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 12 Ratings

This Book Needs to be Edited - 2009-08-13
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There are no references in the book to the applicaplbe practice files (downloadable leaveing the user to open the various files and determine which is applicable to a given exercises. I'm only in Ch 3 and have found references within the text to tables within the text that do not exist. Example, Ch 3, pg 51 references Cell B7 in figure 3.7.
Figure 3.7 is a dialog box displaying how to change a field name. The book itself seems to have excellent content; however, I've found nomenclature to be inconsistent, practice files not identified, and references not accurate. Very informative book be very frustrating to use.

Awesome Pivot Table Resource for all user levels - 2009-01-10
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I hadn't used pivot tables in quite some time. I not only needed a refresher, but also wanted to go beyond my original knowledge level of this essential Excel tool. This book was able to help me accomplish all this and do it in the newer Excel 2007 version. Pivot tables have never been fun, but the combination of this book plus the better developed usability of Excel 2007 was just terrific and has now made working with pivot tables close to fun. The examples used simple to understand written language and along with the copious pictures and examples provided a winning combination. Also essential was the data set readers can download for free to practice with. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a firm grasp of pivot tables.

Great reference - 2009-07-15
Reviewer Rating:
I use pivot tables all of the time so I bought this book to see if there are things I can learn. I did and have learned a lot and it is a great reference. The first two chapters cover the basics but it advances very quickly after that. Writing is very bullet-ed and you can easily look up what you are looking for. A must have for all beginner, intermediate, and even advanced Pivot Table users!

Note of caution is that if you do not have Excel 2007 this book is not that useful as a lot of the features for Pivot Tables have changed from the 2003 to the 2007 version.

Pivot Table Data Crunching for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Business Solutions) - 2009-05-18
Reviewer Rating:
A member of my Electricity Planning team is the Network Information Analyst and he found this book to be excellent and relevant for his needs and much more.

Pivot Table Data Crunching for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Business Solutions)

Just the essentials - Got me going - 2009-01-15
Reviewer Rating:
I liked this book. Even though I had a basic idea of what pivot tables are and how to use them, and actually HAVE used them, this book was exactly right to make things much more clear to me.

Specific things I liked:
- It's concise. Only 274 pages in all, but all of them useful. No wading through long-winded introductory material. This gets right to the point.
- It gives specific information about how you should structure your data so it's amenable to pivot table processing. I had been struggling to make a pivot table work with data that I had already collected into a typical 2-dimensional table but was having trouble making it come out as I wanted, and now I know why. That alone was worth the price of the book.

This book would have been perfect if it had been more specific to Excel 2007 and had not tried to be applicable to users of many previous versions of Excel. The 2007 version is enough different that I was left feeling a bit hungry for the specific 2007 view at times.

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