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Pivot Table Data Crunching for Microsoft Office Excel 2007

by Bill Jelen

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Publisher Comments:

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

Book News Annotation:

Focusing on day-to-day problems, this tutorial gets readers started on creating basic pivot tables within the first two chapters. The authors, who bring with them years of expertise as practitioners and developers, offer a range of recipes, summary report formats and such features as dynamic charts, with emphasis on decision-making support and ease of use by managers and other non-experts. They cover the fundamentals of using pivot tables to make decisions, creating and customizing pivot tables, controlling views, performing calculations within tables, using pivot charts and other visualizations, capturing and analyzing disparate data sources, sharing pivot tables, working with and analyzing OLAP data, building macros, using VBA, and solving common pivot table issues and questions. The index is very helpful, especially when troubleshooting, and the authors provide a guide to finding pivot table commands on the new ribbon interface. Designed for intermediate Excel users.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book News Annotation:

Focusing on day-to-day problems, this tutorial gets readers started on creating basic pivot tables within the first two chapters. The authors, who bring with them years of expertise as practitioners and developers, offer a range of recipes, summary report formats and such features as dynamic charts, with emphasis on decision-making support and ease of use by managers and other non-experts. They cover the fundamentals of using pivot tables to make decisions, creating and customizing pivot tables, controlling views, performing calculations within tables, using pivot charts and other visualizations, capturing and analyzing disparate data sources, sharing pivot tables, working with and analyzing OLAP data, building macros, using VBA, and solving common pivot table issues and questions. The index is very helpful, especially when troubleshooting, and the authors provide a guide to finding pivot table commands on the new ribbon interface. Designed for intermediate Excel users. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

Become a savvy Microsoft Excel user. Pivot tables are a great feature in Excel that help you organize and analyze data, but not many Excel users know how to use pivot tables. "Pivot Table Data Crunching" offers a comprehensive review of all the functionalities of Pivot Tables from author Bill Jelen, otherwise known as Mr. Excel from www.mrexcel.com, and Michael Alexander, a Microsoft Certified Application Developer. The authors' practical scenarios and real-world advice demonstrate the benefits of Pivot Tables and how to avoid the common pitfalls of every day data crunching. Each solution presented in the book can be accomplished with resources available in the Excel interface, making "Pivot Table Data Crunching" a beneficial resource for all levels of Excel users.

About the Author

Bill Jelen is Mr. Excel! He is principal behind the leading Excel website, MrExcel.com. He honed his pivot table wizardry during a 12-year tenure as a financial analyst for a fast growing public computer firm. Armed with only a spreadsheet, he learned how to turn thousands of rows of transactional data into meaningful summaries in record time. He is an accomplished author of books on Excel and is a regular guest on “Call For Help” on TechTV Canada. As an Excel consultant, he has written Excel VBA solutions for hundreds of clients around the English-speaking world. His website hosts over 12 million page views annually.

 

Michael Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) with over 14 years experience developing business solutions with Microsoft Office, VBA, and .Net. He currently lives in Frisco, Texas, where he works as a senior program manager for a top technology firm. In his spare time, he runs a free tutorial site, www.datapigtechnologies.com, where he shares basic Access and Excel tips with intermediate users.

Table of Contents

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

Product Details

ISBN:
9780789736017
Author:
Jelen, Bill
Publisher:
Que
Author:
Alexander, Michael
Subject:
Business
Subject:
Spreadsheets - Excel
Subject:
Computer programs
Subject:
Spreadsheets - General
Subject:
Business -- Computer programs.
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Business Solutions
Publication Date:
December 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
338
Dimensions:
9.08x6.94x.80 in. 1.23 lbs.

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